Campaigners fighting plans to build a tunnel near Stonehenge have lost their latest court case.

Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site's (SSWHS) latest High Court appeal was dismissed by the High Court on Monday (February 20)

Plans were stopped in 2021, over environmental concerns, but the Department of Transport pushed them back onto the agenda on 14 July 2023.

The tunnel, which is projected to cost £2.5bn aims to end the traffic bottleneck on the A303 in Wiltshire.

The campaigners filed a High Court claim against the new order last summer but Mr Justice Holgate (the judge, David Holgate) has now handed judgment in favour of Highways.

SSWHS say that they intend to appeal the decision.

According to the BBC, Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England, said the charity was pleased the court had upheld the Secretary of State's decision.

"We firmly believe that putting much of the busy, noisy and intrusive A303 road into a tunnel past Stonehenge is right for the World Heritage Site," he said.

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"This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore this internationally-important landscape, which has been of great importance to people for over 5,000 years."