Serious Fraud Office wants details on HS2 compensation practices, as...
Back in March, we pointed out that the actions of HS2 Ltd in relation to how they have dealt with land and property owners in many cases was fraud, or more specifically a clear breach of Section 4 of...
View ArticleJohn Bishop and ‘The Adventures of HS2’
Commenting on reports that comedian John Bishop sold his house to HS2 Ltd for £6.8 million, Penny Gaines, chair of Stop HS2, said “The Government has to buy property to build HS2, sometimes because the...
View ArticleWill Court Delay See HS2 Ltd Polluting London’s Water Supply?
The eagerly awaited trial of environmental protestors Sarah Green and Lori Hughes, which was due to take place on 1st April has been delayed for three and a half months. In what was a highly...
View ArticleHave You Lost Money Due to HS2? Then it’s Time to Report HS2 Ltd to the...
Yes, you did read that headline right! Over the years, many people have demonstrated that the case for HS2 is what many people would call ‘fraudulent’: that there may have been financial conflicts of...
View ArticleDfT Admit They Don’t Know How Much Has Been Spent on HS2 Property, as Lawsuit...
The Department for Transport has stated that it does not hold any record of how much has been spent on buying property along the proposed route of HS2, claiming that this information is held solely by...
View ArticleHS2 Ltd Threaten More Jobs, Continuing to Seize Businesses Without Paying for...
It is a shining endorsement of how well the Brexit Firewall has kept almost everything else out of the headlines, that last month Panorama could take a story that broke in June and package it as...
View ArticleNational Audit Office report shows HS2 property cost estimate has trebled.
Today, the National Audit Office has published a report into HS2 buying land and property on Phase 1 of HS2, which has found the estimate has almost trebled since 2012. The NAO report states: “In 2012,...
View ArticleSecret Government Report says “Fundamentally Flawed” HS2 Could go 60%...
A secret report produced by the Governments’ Infrastructure and Projects Authority months before HS2 got its’ final approval in Parliament, warned that the costs of the project were ”highly likely” to...
View ArticleBusinesses Barricaded in Against HS2s’ State-Ordained Theft
We’ve reported a few times in the past that business owners who have handed over their keys to HS2 Ltd are still waiting for any compensation, despite the fact they should get 90% of the money before...
View ArticleDuty of Care and HS2 in PMQs
While HS2 was included in a question at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, it is notable that only Heathrow was referenced in the answer. Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock) (Con):...
View ArticleHS2 Ltd: Thanks for giving us your home. Money? What Money?
One of the many constants over the last eight years has been that each in the long procession of Secretary of States for Transport, has said that HS2 Ltd have to treat people better. The reason that...
View ArticleTenants – Another Set of People Screwed by HS2
By Ewen Simpson There are many examples of the inattention displayed when considering the plight of Tenants, whether they be Council Tenants, Housing Association Tenants or Tenants of Private...
View ArticleHS2 pre-empt consultation with ‘special’ compensation announcement.
Confusion and a little bit of animosity has recently reigned in Mexborough, as for some bizarre reason, HS2 Minister Paul Maynard has decided to write to residents of the part-constructed Shimmer...
View ArticleYet Another Damning Report on HS2
The Institute for Government has produced a report “What’s wrong with infrastructure decision making?”, which has looked into six infrastructure projects. It will come as no surprise that becomes...
View ArticleLandowner Wins Compensation Court Battle Against HS2
A landowner has won a landmark tribunal on compensation rights against HS2 Ltd, who were trying to claim that not all of their landholding should be bought out by Government. The Lands Tribunal has...
View ArticleTypical Government Response to HS2 Report
The Government have published their response to the report of the Lords HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee. Whilst the report from the Lords was disappointingly light on its’ recommendations, even going so far...
View ArticleThe HS2 Ltd Property Empire
A Freedom of Information Request has revealed that HS2 Ltd has so far made £9.1m out of renting properties which it has bought, with £5m f that figure coming in the last year. Of 400 homes which they...
View ArticlePhase 2a compensation package announced
Yesterday Robert Goodwill, transport minister, in a written statement announced the government’s package of measures for owner occupiers along the line of route for Phase 2a of the HS2 project (West...
View ArticleNFU to petition the Lords
The NFU will petition the House of Lords to ensure farmers affected by HS2 are receiving a fair deal. This will be the second time the NFU has submitted a petition on HS2 – the first was to the House...
View ArticleHS2 Residents’ Commissioner is Living in Dreamland
Last week, the HS2 Residents’ Commissioner issued her latest report. For someone who is employed directly by HS2 Ltd and despite her title doesn’t actually talk to residents, there were some positives,...
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