tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post1154029585378787748..comments2024-01-30T06:35:10.103+00:00Comments on www.Sarsen.org: The Stonehenge Regulations 1997 - The Missing PlanTim Dawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-9145530194400025642016-09-15T11:14:04.585+01:002016-09-15T11:14:04.585+01:00Good luck with contacting Mr Pitman Head of Buildi...Good luck with contacting Mr Pitman Head of Building Monuments and sites at DNH probably in 1990s. Could try in back of a plan chest draw at the NMR plans room Swindon.<br /> <br />Peter Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417233316425767843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-72686547004201448492016-09-15T05:37:57.825+01:002016-09-15T05:37:57.825+01:00Pretty much just a technicality - the site manager...Pretty much just a technicality - the site managers have the same right as any landowner to ask and then make you leave. And Ancient monuments have their own protection, It is a fairly pointless regulation and is unenforceable. Tim Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10667360714222841797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-21787694410921469492016-09-14T22:25:00.398+01:002016-09-14T22:25:00.398+01:00This part of the old A344 can't have been incl...This part of the old A344 can't have been included because it was an all-purpose public highway. There's no need for a plan to prove that the visitor centre boundary and the monument area are not contiguous. Any former OS map showing the road, is more than sufficient to establish the extent of the now "restored" part. Permissions for it's use is a different issue altogether. The metalled part of the old A344 is still a public highway but closed to motor vehicles.<br /><br />I'm just trying to understand if this topic post is alluding to something underhand going on as a very interested but non-local party, with regard to a globally important monument, or if it's just a technicality of no material consequence. For example, if I wanted to walk down to as close to the stone monument as possible to observe and record stellar phenomena one clear dark night, simply as a prehistoric experience, would I be prevented from doing so. Scientific astronomical study can be done in many different ways, without needing to be physically within the monument or indeed, anywhere near it! Richard Bartoszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15367500849154120275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-88665956775266433762016-09-14T18:32:11.223+01:002016-09-14T18:32:11.223+01:00... perhaps Nigel Pittman has the original or know...... perhaps Nigel Pittman has the original or knows where it is, as it seems from the annotation that he was involved either in drawing it up or approving it.Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411169607069794715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-86405025628222750832016-09-14T18:28:39.623+01:002016-09-14T18:28:39.623+01:00That's interesting - pretty much exactly the r...That's interesting - pretty much exactly the response I had a few years ago when I asked them, but they didn't send me a copy. With yours, I've overlaid it on Google Earth to see the extent of the area covered, and it makes it clear that the old A344 isn't included.<br /><br />http://web.org.uk/tmp/henge/1997regs/1997regsoverlay.pngSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411169607069794715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5787185370858787658.post-57356135607009227542016-09-14T18:14:44.383+01:002016-09-14T18:14:44.383+01:00Hi Tim,
What is it that a member of the public mi...Hi Tim,<br /><br />What is it that a member of the public might be able to do which couldn't be challenged because the plan is missing? Would such an act of "intrusion", or whatever other description, be covered as challengeable under the other existing laws?<br /><br />So is your query an alert which might be being looked into already, such that any potential loophole might be eliminated?<br /><br />I note that the copy has a chunk missing along a join through the centre of the monument.<br /><br />What's the security around that designated area these days, and is it secure enough to prevent access in the dead of night for some stellar observation...you don't have to answer, and I'm not planning to test it out!<br /><br />RichardRichard Bartoszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15367500849154120275noreply@blogger.com