Dear Alex Brannen

I have read with 'interest' your press release (if that is what it is) regarding parking facilities at Avebury. The first thing that springs to mind is that this is not about 'parking' at Avebury at all but about providing (or more accurately) not providing people the facilities to occasionally overnight at a place that is important to them. Put bluntly, Mr Brannen, you and the 'stakeholders' (god knows what that means) are saying, "If you're not an Avebury resident - bog off." And who are you and these little villagers to lord it over the rest of the national and international community their right to overnight at a place so dear to them?

I could rant on but I'm trying to give it up... William Stukeley said it all nearly three hundred years ago -

"And this stupendous fabric (Avebury), which for some thousands of years, had brav'd the continual assaults of weather, and by the nature of it, when left to itself, like the pyramids of Egypt, would have lasted as long as the globe, hath fallen a sacrifice to the wretched ignorance and avarice of a little village unluckily plac'd within it."