it's the same with the nine ladies on stanton moor. If the quarry company has their way, the circle will end up standing on a core of rock in the middle of a bloody lunar landscape. However, as long as they don't touch the stones they get carte blanche from the authorities. Indeed I think with a lot of these cases the firms involved actually influence the decisions made with some smarmy PR package detailing how wonderfully they're going look after the monuments themselves.
It all comes down to the fact that you just can't turn ancient sites into commodities. They are part of the land, and the land is part of them.
I feel so lucky to live on this magical island, and be surrounded by evidence of my ancient roots. I really worry about what will be left for our children and grand children, when they've finished, to quote the old Genesis album, "selling England by the pound"...