The Stonehenge Alliance campaign group is launching a legal challenge to stop the government plan for a £1.7bn two-mile tunnel under Stonehenge.

Supporters of The Stonehenge Alliance group has set up Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site, a new organisation to challenge the controversial plan, which will see a two-mile stretch of dual carriageway built under the site on the A303 in a bid to ease bottlenecks on the major route.

Transport secretary Grant Shapps approved the project last month, overruling a planning report recommending with holding consent for the project. However, the Department for Transport said that the benefits of the scheme outweighed the potential harm.

Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site has instructed a legal team to investigate the lawfulness of the decision and has served a notice of potential legal action to which the Secretary of State has been asked to respond within 10 days. The group is urging people to back the campaign claiming the plan is “wasteful and destructive”.

Historic England and the National Trust say diverting the road underground will enhance the site, but Druids, green campaigners and archaeologists have opposed the plans.

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