You speak, yet again, as if it's a process of balancing transport needs against heritage needs.

It's not. It's a fight between two agendas with zero means to render each into units of comparison.

And yes, I can assure you the ways in which heritage value is measured by guardians has been doctored horribly in the past few years to boost the likelihood that "development" will mostly win. This is a Tory government after all. It's what they're about.