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ocifant Mar 27, 2009 13:24:20
Replying to nigelswift

Copied from "Loyal Arthurian Warband" site:

EH renege on Stonehenge plans?
Posted by:
Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:44 am (PDT)
PRESS RELEASE

King Arthur Pendragon has been picketing Stonehenge since the Summer Solstice of 2008 in protest at the wilful lack of action, mis-management and neglect since the 1950s of the World Heritage Site of Stonehenge by English Heritage and the British Government.

A spokesperson from EH has now informed Arthur that due to the delayed decision making by the DCMS Minister, and failure to apply for planning permission in time, the deadline has now been missed for completion of the whole project including the new Visitor Centre in time for the 2012 Olympics and will therefore, once again, be shelved!

In firm response, Arthur wishes it be known that he will now step up his peaceful campaign due to this news of the intention of both English Heritage and the British Government to renege on their promises to protect the temple/monument.

Ironically, English Heritage have announced a campaign to protect historical buildings in conservation areas and are creating a Domesday Book listing of these - what a disgrace that they have failed to protect Stonehenge for so long!

Contact info:
King Arthur Pendragon - 07840 277 812
DCMS - Department of Culture Media & Sports, 02072 116 200
English Heritage, Peter Carson, Stonehenge Office, 01722 343 830
English Heritage, Lorraine Knowles, Project Officer, 0117 975 0736
English Heritage, Renee Fock, Press Office, 0207 973 3297
Conservation Domesday Book link - http://www.english - heritage. org.uk/server/ ...ConWebDoc. 15959

Press Officer to King Arthur Pendragon
26 March 2009

S Stoneshifter
Stoneshifter Mar 27, 2009 14:10:01
Replying to ocifant

Fancy sending some of this stuff to the architecture columnist on Private Eye?

L Littlestone
Littlestone Mar 27, 2009 14:33:17
Replying to ocifant

A spokesperson from EH has now informed Arthur that due to the delayed decision making by the DCMS Minister, and failure to apply for planning permission in time, the deadline has now been missed for completion of the whole project including the new Visitor Centre in time for the 2012 Olympics and will therefore, once again, be shelved!
Ha! Told ya! - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=52355&message=652951

M moss
moss Mar 27, 2009 14:34:08
Replying to ocifant

ocifant wrote:
Copied from "Loyal Arthurian Warband" site:

EH renege on Stonehenge plans?
Posted by:
Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:44 am (PDT)
PRESS RELEASE

King Arthur Pendragon has been picketing Stonehenge since the Summer Solstice of 2008 in protest at the wilful lack of action, mis-management and neglect since the 1950s of the World Heritage Site of Stonehenge by English Heritage and the British Government.

A spokesperson from EH has now informed Arthur that due to the delayed decision making by the DCMS Minister, and failure to apply for planning permission in time, the deadline has now been missed for completion of the whole project including the new Visitor Centre in time for the 2012 Olympics and will therefore, once again, be shelved!

In firm response, Arthur wishes it be known that he will now step up his peaceful campaign due to this news of the intention of both English Heritage and the British Government to renege on their promises to protect the temple/monument.

Ironically, English Heritage have announced a campaign to protect historical buildings in conservation areas and are creating a Domesday Book listing of these - what a disgrace that they have failed to protect Stonehenge for so long!

Contact info:
King Arthur Pendragon - 07840 277 812
DCMS - Department of Culture Media & Sports, 02072 116 200
English Heritage, Peter Carson, Stonehenge Office, 01722 343 830
English Heritage, Lorraine Knowles, Project Officer, 0117 975 0736
English Heritage, Renee Fock, Press Office, 0207 973 3297
Conservation Domesday Book link - http://www.english - heritage. org.uk/server/ ...ConWebDoc. 15959

Press Officer to King Arthur Pendragon
26 March 2009

Speechless, from spending hundreds of millions to nought, perhaps the Olympics will be scrapped as well - or am I expecting too much?

N nigelswift
nigelswift Mar 27, 2009 15:28:00
Replying to ocifant

It ain't an announcement is it? So it's an account of an alleged private conversation. And the guts of it, that a planning deadline has been missed, is just plain wrong it seems - see this article, dated December 2008 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003078.html
"little more than six months remaining before a planning application needs to be submitted..."