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Is there one English Heritage which gets a European Heritage award for its superb care for part of the World Heritage site at Ironbridge and another which is defying UNESCO and supporting massive new damage to part of the World Heritage site at Stonehenge?
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Or is it that there’s just one organisation but with two parts – the main part comprising hardworking, dedicated professional experts who do a fantastic job and the other consisting of those in charge who decree that the organisation must do whatever the British Government wants?
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16/05/2020 at 18:15
paulintheswimhotmailcom
Yes it’s such a shame that English Heritage have so many really good quality staff and yet EH periodically throw out all the ‘Visions and Values’ sanctimoniously claimed on their website.
The fact is that Blick Mead, plus the western burial grounds (both older than Stonehenge) plus other parts of the wider Stonehenge landscape will be badly damaged by the tunnel they are supporting.
Judge EH’s honesty for yourself by Googling “Blick Mead, English Heritage” and you will see that they hardly say anything about it. Obviously because they don’t want people to know about its importance and how badly the tunnel and road project will physically damage it. Plus how the massive flyover and roundabout planned near to BM will dry it out and ruin the carbon dating opportunities. And what an absolute tragedy this would be for our understanding of how hunter gatherers evolved onto the culture of people that built the amazing wider Stonehenge landscape.
EH (and Historic England) are also behaving appallingly over the Oswestry hillfort planning application.
There are probably various other similar examples of EH’s hypocrisy across England. For example, I remember some years ago that they also behaved badly when a massive hotel, shops and luxury housing was (and still is) being planned directly opposite Hampton Court Palace. Basically the Palace were (and I am sure still are!) very against it but EH disgracefully supported the developers.
The people in power at EH really need to rethink some of their decisions…………and listen to their decent staff of which there are so many.