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Secretary Heidi Alexander expressed concern that ‘checks and balances’ are being used to ‘frustrate the delivery of consented ...
Secretary says nine cases have been brought against the high-speed line as she removes safeguarding for land on cancelled leg ...
HS2 bought up hundreds of homes along the high-speed rail route, letting out those it didn't demolish and said it had to ...
‘HS2 won’t sell me my rental house - despite it being more than a kilometre from high-speed line’ - HS2 has a rental property empire of nearly 1,500 homes, but route cancellations and house ...
North Warwickshire's motorists will have 13 road closures to avoid nearby on the National Highways network this week.
A 1,300-tonne viaduct deck has been slid into place as part of HS2.
A 1,300-tonne viaduct deck has been slid into place for the HS2 project after four years of work. The 220m (722ft) steel and concrete deck has been installed near the Northamptonshire village of ...
‘This project has always been the wrong way round’: Readers split on future of HS2 Independent readers are split on the future of HS2. While some argued, ‘if you were only going to build ...
At last there are signs of reality beginning to emerge for HS2. (“Transport secretary pledges to fix ‘appalling’ mess of HS2”, Report, June 19). But the (macho?) obsession with speed is ...
How HS2 squandered billions to become a national embarrassment Trains may run between Birmingham and somewhere near London by 2036 – a decade late, and slower than planned as Simon Calder explains ...
UK government fumes at ‘ludicrous’ £125M ‘bat tunnel’ The ‘bat mitigation tunnel’ is designed to protect wildlife from Britain’s High Speed Rail 2 project — but it’s enraging ministers as cost ...