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How many houses are they building there?
Five houses are being proposed.

The Art Deco garage had a certain charm about it and personally I think it should have been kept and turned into something both useful and relevant to the Avebury World Heritage Site. Now that it's gone there's an empty space which again, personally, I think should stay empty - the site is just too close to the north-east quadrant of the Henge for a housing project. In fact, if you look at the second pic on Heritage Action you'll see just how close the houses will be to the Henge - not to mention the fact that the houses will also be visible from the Henge's north-east bank.

Littlestone wrote:
- not to mention the fact that the houses will also be visible from the Henge's north-east bank.
Hmmm . . There are houses all around Avebury already though, just how much would it effect the enjoyment of people visiting if you could see houses when you stood on the henge?

I dunno. I just think it's all very well to say "I don't think they should be buiding there" but the person that owns the land has got the right to do whatever they want with it. I assume it's privately owned?
Is it fair for them to lose money because some people decide they might not like the view from the henge?
I'd rather them build nothing around Avebury, the only construction I want would be re-erecting the stones, but as far as campaigning to stop someone building something on private land? I honestly don't know.