Category Archives: Transport

The House of Lords starts work on HS2

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Here’s a note from Brian Adams, Committee member and one of our leading HS2 petitioners, about the second reading of the High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) bill on April 14th:

“It is good to see that some Lords understand the disenchantment of the communities and many of the issues.”

“Note the comment that they should start first with petitions from London and AFTER the summer recess.”

http://stophs2.org/news/15414-lords-say-to-petition

If you don’t want to take Stop HS2’s word for it, or want to explore the context more deeply, take a look at the Hansard transcript.

Your HS2 Compensation questions answered

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Many Ickenham residents are confused and worried about HS2’s plans for compensation (Assuming we don’t get the tunnel). In January, it published some maps and explanations of the various types of compensations on offer. We’ve extracted the Ickenham-relevant parts and put them on a new HS2 Compensation maps page. This links to three downloadable maps in .pdf format which you can browse at leisure (and zoom into to see the detail).

While researching HS2 compensation in general, we found a link to good plain english explanations by property consultants Roger Hannah & Co – well worth a look.