For sale: the land previously held for HS2 Northern Leg .. or not
Mark Thurston, CEO of HS2 Ltd until September 2023, at the M42 first bridge installation, source: HS2 Ltd Source: HS2 Ltd
The UK government has announced that land previously designated for the now-cancelled northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail project has had restrictions on its use lifted, allowing owners freedom, and even for sale on the open market. Transport Secretary Mark Harper revealed that people can now apply to build on the land. Rules requiring councils to consult with the firm building the line for planning applications have been lifted.
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Quite embarassing idea to abandon the route together with land property already obtained, and allowing non-rail development where the tracks shoud be laid. This would only increase costs if the plans would be taken up by a later government, maybe this year or 20 years from now.
This government are just a bunch of incompetent wreckers. They know the next government won’t be left by them so they are destroying everything before they get kicked out. They are utterly useless.
Conservatives are criminal scum, selling land reserved for the nation’s only long term transport solution joining up the regions of mass population, if only to scupper the next government’s ability to right a wrong. Having grown up as a liberal capitalist, all I can say is these disgusting stains on humanity should never again be allowed anywhere near the governance of the UK and should forever be consigned to the gutter of civilisation where they belong.