Thornborough henge

[DarkcelticLion]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4734994.stm
Ok, anyone active on other pagan forums or keeping track of various pagan related news will be familiar with this.
Thornborough henge has been saved for now from plans realting to a quarry extension.

i have a question relating to this. This was actually on the national news the other nite and they featured a few workers from the quarry saying how 50 jobs would be lost due to this refusal of planning permission.
i cant remember exactly what this guy said, but it went along the lines of 'theres nowt there that will help folks so why stop the plans from going ahead. The sites aren't as important as jobs.

Now i fully understand the need for employment(i'm not right now,lol), but i also understand and want ancient sites protected, this countries establishment seem all too eager to protect recent sites and history, yet anything pre-roman can simply be bulldozed or moved to display units in museums.

i havent signed up for that particular campaign, but i have kept an eye on it, as i have tara etc etc. Doesnt mean i dont care or i get pissed off by folks attitudes to our ancient roots.

Lion

[janetree]

As a long term campaigner and having dangled over the edge of a quarry with a banner, this is your standard BS reason for bringing in the bulldozers. Well it may have been true in the 1980's but now it is BS. If they really want work they can come work in the building end of construction in London!

Apart from the obvious historical significance of the site there is also the MASSIVE negative environmental impact of quarrying (lets just remember that the biggest producers of waste bith here in the UK and globally) is the building trade (this includes quarrying and road building).

It really is high time this country stopped building unsustainably and quit building roads (it was proved after Newbury that more roads = more cars).

The best way forward for the protesters is to get the site listed and a preservation order slapped on it.

[elswyth]

This was actually on the national news the other nite and they featured a few workers from the quarry saying how 50 jobs would be lost due to this refusal of planning permission.
i cant remember exactly what this guy said, but it went along the lines of 'theres nowt there that will help folks so why stop the plans from going ahead. The sites aren't as important as jobs.

Yup that bloke had me spitting at the tv screen. Bloody man!! Quite frankly I don't give one if he and his buddies do lose their jobs, as Janetree said there are plenty of construction jobs in London. What's at stake here with the henge is a lot bigger than 50 bloody jobs!!!

Makes you wonder if they'd ever consider doing that or even use such a pathetic excuse as that if it was an old church that was in question.