REVISED plans for a tunnel around Stonehenge have been put to the public in Highways England’s latest consultation.

The government department used feedback from last year’s consultation to further develop its plans for the stretch of the A303 past Stonehenge, between Amesbury and Berwick Down.

Highways England is asking for the public’s view on three changes to the initial scheme before submitting its official application.

These include removing a previously proposed link between Byways 11 and 12 in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, widening the proposed green bridge near the existing Longbarrow roundabout and move the proposed modification to Rollestone crossroads.

The latest consultation on the £1.6bn proposals is set to run until August 14.

Highways England said it had received more than 5,000 responses to its previous consultation.

Highways England project director for the A303 Stonehenge scheme Derek Parody said: “We had a great response to our earlier consultation and have acted on the feedback. We now want to get people’s views on our proposed changes to our original consultation.

“The further feedback we get will allow us to make sure we have got the best scheme before we make our application later this year to build the scheme.

“Meanwhile we continue to work with heritage groups including Historic England, English Heritage, the National Trust, and experts in the field, including the Stonehenge Scientific Committee - a body of leading independent archaeologists - to ensure a new route is built sensitively to the World Heritage site.”

The final application is due to be submitted later this year.

To respond to the consultation visit highways.gov.uk/a303stonehenge/consultation before August 14.