Mustard wrote:
But you'd still have a road through the village, and a bunch of (legitimately) pissed off residents. Preferable from a conservation point of view maybe, but nowhere near the (relatively) simple solution that's available at Stonehenge. So it's kinda easy to see why it isn't up there on the EH priority list, nice though it would be from a TMA perspective.
The idea of a bypass for Avebury has been considered but it’d be even trickier there (from what I can remember) than at Stonehenge (and that’s even before the howls of protest from the, “It’ll destroy the environment.” and, It’ll wreck the archaeological record.” brigade). So, as you say, ‘nice though it would be from a TMA perspective’ it ain’t going to happen – principally because we’re a very small voice amid a much larger cacophony of other voices unwilling, or unable, to do anything. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t keep on saying what should be done, even though we’re often accused of ‘banging on’ about these issues... 