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Each day this week the Heritage Journal has been asking English Heritage for transparency in relation to their management of Stonehenge. Today we send the following memo to English Heritage’s new Chief Executive, Kate Mavor :
Customer facing staff at Stonehenge have a difficult job made harder by the frustrations of the public. Despite this English Heritage always had some excellent operational staff at Stonehenge. It is then telling to compare staff directories of five years ago and today to reveal a sea change of key staff connected with Stonehenge. One does not expect such a change to take place without impact. Hence from what you have been quoted as saying Kate about the “impact of change and development on heritage”, it is to be hoped you can make time to take a hands-on detailed interest in what has been happening at Stonehenge!
It is very clear that the public and media have deep misgivings about a number of issues. They are entitled to expect better in the management of the nation’s most famous state owned monument, and we feel that a change of course would be widely welcomed along with the restoration of some dignity to the site, would it not?
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If you have a question you would like English Heritage to answer about their management of Stonehenge or any other site, you can still send it in to the Journal, if publishable we will see what we can do!
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16/08/2015 at 22:08
Nell Bramalam
Exactly who runs (and has daily responsibility for) the Stonehenge site?
Exactly who, on what committee, makes the decisions for the site? Is there any outside input into decisions?
How much influence does the government have over a monument like Stonehenge?
Given Stonehenge’s importance, does EH have to get approval for anything other than planning guidance and permission for major changes?
Under what circumstances could Stonehenge be removed from EH’s care, if the organization were felt to be unfit to care for it?
19/08/2015 at 13:29
Carl Morton
From a monetary point of view it doesn’t matter what E.H. do at Stonehenge as it will always turn a profit. There is no doubt that this is one of E.H.’s main ‘cash cows’. There is no doubt things can be improved from a visitor point of view (I personally think the removing of the plaque on the Airman’s Corner memorial to be the worst thing of all) but it terms of cold hard cash (the thing E.H. are probably most concerned about) it won’t make much diffierence. Perhaps they should use a system like they have a Newgrange in Irland? BUT if that was adopted it would have a significant impact on the number of visitors = significant reduction of money through the tills.