[Stones] New houses for Avebury?

[Ric]

Hi,

what are the various Druid groups saying about all
this, i wonder? i know Avebury is a focus for modern
Druidry - has there been any response to this dreadful
planning project from this quarter?

thanks

Ric


--- Thelma Wilcox <thelmawilcox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Planning laws and Avebury
> 
> Hi Ric, I am going to reply in slightly negative
> terms here, it seems that no matter how much
> legislation and fine words are written, when it
> comes to the crunch political expediency seems to
> win.


it's money, Thelma, that is the only thing they can
see - this always was a materialistic culture but
since the 1980's, it's gone up several gears


>   For instance Tara, this from the UN Charter Agenda
> 21; for the principal of sustainable development law
> which the Irish government are signed up to....
>   ""works of man or the combined works of nature and
> of man, and areas including archaeological sites
> which are of outstanding universal value from the
> historical, aesthetic, ethnological or
> anthropological points of view".
>   And yet the Irish government still go ahead when
> clearly they are contravening such laws.
>   This latest headline regarding the development
> around Bath.....
>   HERITAGE IS 'NO BARRIER TO AREA'S DEVELOPMENT'
> that from Hazel Blears; and not forgetting the new
> planning laws that are coming into existence in the
> near future for the prospective development of new
> house build in the south plus nuclear energy sites.
>   So stopping the building of 5 houses on the
> outskirts of Avebury, plus any future development
> nearby is not a great priority on our government's
> plate, the only way forward of stopping 'new build'
> within the Avebury complex is sometimes 'direct
> action' ;) if the various organisations set up to
> protect the rights of heritage fail to do so...
>   Thelma


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