{"id":39440,"date":"2024-03-26T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39440"},"modified":"2024-03-25T18:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:19:56","slug":"stonehenge-tunnel-campaigners-lose-high-court-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39440","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge tunnel Campaigners lose High Court challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28382\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Stonehenge_from_the_north_Sumit-Surai-commons_wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against renewed plans to build a road tunnel near Stonehenge.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=82300627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stonehenge<\/a> by Sumit Surai \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) challenged plans for a tunnel on part of the A303 near the site.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court quashed the project in 2021\u2026 but the Department for Transport (DfT) approved it again\u2026<\/p>\n<p>National Highways says the tunnel will remove the sight and sound of traffic passing the site and cut journey times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-68338484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners have lost a High Court challenge against renewed plans to build a road tunnel near Stonehenge. image for illustration: Stonehenge by Sumit Surai \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39441,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions\/39441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}