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Highways England Consultation — A303/Stonehenge

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nigelswift Feb 22, 2017 07:06:09
Replying to jonmor

I doubt he will as it's so obvious.

The only people I've come across saying culture can (and indeed should) be measured using economic criteria, apart from you, are spokesmen for developers like Wimpeys and Tarmac and occasionally English Heritage "the Stonehenge dual carriageway is justified because it will improve the visitor experience". Oh, and Salop CC who said building on the hillfort setting would be good as the developers would give money for a better visitor centre.

You are yet to offer an illustration of how heritage can be validly assessed using microeconomic analysis. Please now spill the beans.

T tiompan
tiompan Feb 22, 2017 08:27:17
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
I doubt he will as it's so obvious.
Quite .

J jonmor
jonmor Feb 22, 2017 08:28:43
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
You are yet to offer an illustration of how heritage can be validly assessed using microeconomic analysis. Please now spill the beans.
In principle It's not difficult to assign value Nigel. You work out the benefits and/or risks of retaining whatever it is that you're looking to defend and then find a way to quantify that to an equivalent financial value. Economic benefits (such as tourism) are often done on a National basis whereas Social benefits can be done on a National or "Humanity" basis.

But this sort of forum format isn't suitable for that type of discussion. It might be worth putting in a holding set of arguments in the current consultation to try to open a foothold for the second round of consultations: I don't have a lot of time spare at the moment, but will look into it next week to see if it is feasible.