Thursday is the deadline for people to express their views over a proposed £193m road development around Stonehenge.

It is hoped that the re-routing of the A303 road, and a £57m visitor centre, will rescue the World Heritage site from its label as "a national disgrace".

The scheme proposes making the single-carriageway road dual at its busiest section and re-routing it out of sight of the stones by boring a tunnel.

More than 1,000 people have already made their views known and a public inquiry is to be held early next year.

But the National Trust, while supporting the overall scheme, has reiterated its call for the 2.1 km tunnel proposed by the government, to be lengthened.

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Anything they do short of building a stonehenge theme park can only be a good thing. It's so depressing at the moment, with the cruddy little 'visitors' centre selling little stomehenge knick-knacks, and the big wire fence, and then the most important megalithic site in Europe sitting 50 feet away with trucks and cars roaring past belching exhaust fumes all over the place.

I took some students there a few years ago and they were just baffled. Most photographs of stonehenge are judiciously arranged so that the road isn't visible, which is a lie, basically. Or at least a bending of the truth. My poor students assumed that they'd be walking across moorland and meadow to get to this mystical spot, and instead they just got off the bus on the A303 and had a look through the wire fence.

As I say. Anything has to be an improvement.

I,m not sure why people feel the need to develop the site.If I had my way - and I never will - I would have nothing in the area....including roads.As for that pathetic little shop...I lived in Warminster which is on the doorstep, and always hoped that Stonehenge would remain ontouched by developers hands, unfortunately the plans that are on the table at the moment I believe are the first of many.