Property advisors and consultancy firm Frank Knight have compiled videos using Google Maps to show an eagle’s eye view of the proposed HS2 route from London to Birmingham. Here we share the section from Balsall Common, passing Berkswell Station and Lavender Hall Fishery onwards to Hampton in Arden. The video picks up on the disused Kenilworth to Balsall Common line, before passing Balsall Common through Lavendar Hall fisheries and onwards to Hampton in Arden:
Stop HS2 campaign takes a pop at Christmas chart success
The Stop HS2 action group have the Christmas charts in their sites, having found themselves musical allies willing to pen a fundraising song with a Christmas ring to it. The song by Dirty Mavis is riding high in the HMV download charts despite the refusal of mainstream media to air the supposedly controversial song. The associated video depicts areas set for destruction by the proposed route, which we have been told includes the playing fields of the school which was used in the filming of cult comedy TV series ‘The Inbetweeners’.
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Berkswell Parish Council formalises opposition to HS2
Berkswell Parish Council formally rejected proposals for High Speed 2 in the recent public consultation. For anyone interested in what they had to say we have reproduced their formal responses to the 7 questions in full here:
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HS2 public consultation ends today – online responses allowed until midnight
There’s still time to participate in the public consultation for HS2 which closes today. Responses can be filed online via the Department for Transport website until midnight tonight.
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Balsall Common Village Residents Association join HS2 opposition
Balsall Common Village Residents Association (BCVRA) have joined the HS2 opposition following detailed consultation with residents and is submitting a formal response to that effect in the public consultation which ends tomorrow.
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Property owners advised to lodge HS2 compensation claims now
Property owners who think they could be blighted by High Speed 2 are being urged to assume the worst and file their compensation plans now, even though the public enquiry is still underway and final route will not be finalised until later this year.
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Stop HS2 campaigners launch hotline
Joe Rukin, Chair of the Kenilworth Stop HS2 campaign group and co-founder of national group ‘Stop HS2′ reports:
Stop HS2 Consultation Hotline launched as Institiute for Economic Affairs question HS2 business case
STOP HS2, the body campaigning against the proposed high speed rail link have set up a hotline for people still unsure how to respond to the HS2 consultation, which closes on Friday 29th July. This came on the same day as the Institute for Economic Affairs produced a report claiming that HS2 was a “recipe for disaster” based on “bogus assumptions” and that “the forever-embattled British taxpayer will end up footing the bill for this latest white elephant”.
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Only 10 days left for public to comment on HS2
The Government’s HS2 public consultation period ends on 29 July so campaigners both for and against High Speed 2 are encouraging people to act now, before it’s too late.
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