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Campaigners say an assessment carried out to determine the environmental impact of HS2 has ignored input from villagers.
People living in the Great Missenden area have attended a series of community forum meetings presided over by HS2 Ltd since last year, at which they were able to discuss their concerns about the project.
Part of the point of the forums was to offer residents a chance to...
Mid Cheshire residents will be able to have their say on plans to build a high speed train line in England when a public meeting is held at an affected farm.
The proposed route for Phase Two of the £32 billion High Speed Two (HS2) line was revealed in January, with the Birmingham to Manchester leg running through Whatcroft, Lach Dennis, Lostock Green, Lostock Gralam and Pickmere.
It will...
Ministers hopes of winning unanimous support from the north for High speed rail have suffered a fresh blow as three more councils have come out against the Government’s flagship project.
Not only have two influential northern municipal leaders voiced opposition to the project but Staffordshire Borough Council, has thrown its weight behind the 51m group of local authorities which is...
Residents can now have their say on an environmental consultation in the next phase of plans for High Speed Rail.
But campaigners are calling for the scheme to be scrapped after a damning report into its mounting costs by the National Audit Office.
HS2 Ltd project’s draft Environmental Statement seeks views on how the proposed railway through Burton Green will impact on the environment and...
Opposition to the proposed HS2 high speed rail route is growing in the north of England, with the leaders of the region’s two biggest councils saying the economic case has not been proved.
Peter Box, of Wakefield, and David Green, of Bradford, said the £34.5bn could be better spent on local transport improvements.
The councillors’ intervention follows a National Audit Office report that...
The controversial £33bn plan for the High Speed Two (HS2) rail line through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire many never happen, according to an official Government report. It is one of 23 major Government projects at serious risk of failure, according to Whitehall documents.
The report is from a Government watchdog set up to monitor the progress of major projects and gives them red, amber and...
Ministers have been warned that many of the Government’s flagship reforms including the universal credit welfare system, the High Speed rail two train link and the replacement of Britain’s aircraft carriers are “unachievable” or “in doubt”.
A Whitehall audit released last night discloses that officials have warned that billions of pounds of public money is in jeopardy because of the poorly-...
One in six major government projects are in need of “urgent remedial action”, including flagship policies such as its Universal Credit welfare reform, the HS2 rail line and the rollout of high-speed broadband.
The report by the Major Projects Authority is the first to be released by the Major Projects Authority, set up in 2011 to improve the pace and delivery of public infrastructure projects...
Council bosses say plans for a £36bn high speed rail network would be a bad deal for the city.
Leader of Wakefield Council Coun Peter Box told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday it would cost at least £1.5bn to bring the HS2 line through Wakefield.
And he said just £81m of that would be enough to fix all of the district’s pothole-ridden streets and build a new relief road planned for the east of...
People living in and around Lichfield will get the chance to view the latest plans for HS2 at an event at the Guildhall.
The display of the updated plans for construction of Phase One forms part of a consultation across the country by HS2 Ltd into “design refinements”.
Among the proposed changes outlined ahead of a bill to Parliament authorising construction of the high speed rail line is...
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