Stonehenge
STONEHENGE - LATEST NEWS - MARCH 2018!
Formal Consultation on A303 Stonehenge, 9 February – 23 April 2018.
Highways England’s formal consultation on widening the A303 from Amesbury to Berwick Down is under way.
Wiltshire Best Kept Village Competition 2018 - First Round Results
First (district) round judging of the 36 entries for the 2018 CPRE Wiltshire and The Hills Group Best Kept Village Competition has now been completed. The results are published below (Read more). The BKVC judges for the second (county) round will be visiting villages during July. They will not warn villages of the precise date of their inspection but they will identify themselves if asked.
The county winners for the previous two years are ineligible for the main competition but three are competing for the Laurence Kitching Award, which is sponsored by Princeton Homes. They will be also be judged during July.
Local Generation and Storage of Electricity
The Government is encouraging the development of backup generation and battery storage in the countryside as means of increasing electricity supply. CPRE Wiltshire has produced a booklet exploring the issues raised by planning applications to implement these processes.
Land Promotion - The Truth Disclosed
CPRE briefing – How ‘land promoters’ exploit legal loopholes at the expense of communities and the countryside.
