The upper Severn estuary at Lydney, Glocestershire; a typical low tide scene, showing the remains of 18th and 19th century Severn trows surviving in the mud (photo:© Mark Horton)

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  • Stonehenge Visitor Centre, Plans Dropped: RESCUE responds - The Government announced this week that it was withdrawing its financial support for the proposed £25m new visitor centre at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. This is the first high-profile heritage casualty of the current budgetry pressures and forthcoming programme of spending cuts. It is unlikely to be the last. Rescue...
  • Rescue News 110 - Rescue News 110 for Summer 2010 is now being distributed. Why not join us to receive your very own copy? You can read snippets of articles from issue 110 here, together with articles from old issues of...
  • Medieval Vaults under threat in Southampton - It has come to Rescue's attention that Southampton City Council are currently considering proposals to sell off four of the 37 medieval vaults in Southampton for development. The proposals have met with some local opposition, but the council have argued that the historic fabric of the vaults can be successfully incorporated...
  • Rescue AGM 2010 - All are invited to join Rescue for our AGM, to be held in conjunction with the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology on Saturday 20th March 2010.
    Seeing as 2010 marks the 1600th anniversary of the end of Roman Britain, why not come and listen to pre-eminent speakers on the...
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  • Save Greenwich WHS from the Olympics: a beneficial cut - As reported in RN 109 in January this year LOCOG applied for planning permission for the construction of temporary structures required to stage the Olympics 2012 equestrian events and modern pentathlon events at Greenwich Royal Park. These events are set to take place in July and August 2012, while the Paralympics dressage competitions would take place in September 2012. At a planning meeting to consider the application...
  • PPS5 (Planning for the Historic Environment) : Rescue Responds -

    The Government has this week published PPS5, the policy document that replaces PPGs 15 and 16. This document and its supporting Practice Guide will dictate the way that planning applications affecting heritage sites and features are processed and determined. For the first time, all heritage features – from standing historic buildings, to archaeological features, battlefields, historic landscapes and conservation areas – will be subject to the same set of policy criteria by which to...

  • Stonehenge Update (January 2010) - The planning application for a new Stonehenge visitor centre and associated works was considered by Wiltshire Council’s Strategic Planning Committee on Wednesday 20 January. http://www.salisbury.gov.uk/planning/development-control/planning-applications/2009/1527/application-documentation.htm In summary, the scheme proposals are for closure of the A344/A303 junction at Stonehenge Bottom and greening of the A344 up to the Henge; removal of parking and other facilities from the present location to Airman’s Corner, at the junction of the A344 with the A360 on the western edge of the...
  • Save Colchester Circus: Rescue backs the campaign - Rescue has now been told that the initial campaign to raise £200,000 has been successful - many congratulations to the campaigners - see http://www.romancircus.org/2010/03/01/thank-you-appeal-reaches-its-200000-target/ Destination Colchester and Colchester Archaeology Trust are together trying to raise funds to buy the Sergeants’ Mess building and garden of Abbey Fields from developers Taylor Wimpey to save a unique site from redevelopment and help preserve Colchester’s town’s unique heritage. Deadline now February 2010 The Appeal has had the...
  • Rescue adds its voice to concern over damaging Olympic proposals for Greenwich Park - Rescue is backing a campaign led by NOGOE - No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events to ensure that The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) fully considers the archaeological implications of the planned Olympic Equestrian events in Greenwich Park. Greenwich Park is an area of intense archaeological interest, within the World Heritage Site.

    A Roman temple complex was discovered in 1902 on a mound in the Park by the then...

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