McLoughlin announces latest set of made up HS2 figures. Yesterday, the DfT announced that 1500 jobs at HS2 construction headquarters would be sited in Birmingham, stating that a...
HS2 Committee will ‘be lucky’ to complete in two years, says chair. Mr Robert Syms MP, the Chair of the HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee said that he thinks that his committee...
HS2 ‘New City’ plans start to take shape. In March 2012, it was reported that Professor Andrew McNaughton, then the chief engineer at HS2 Ltd...
HS2 campaigners fight to be heard Today (Wednesday 9th July), the HS2 Hybrid Bill Committee will hear the challenges to locus standi (the right to...
Update from Stop HS2 Below is the update email sent out by Stop HS2 on Saturday 28th June 2014. Update on Petitioning Thanks to a...
“These mega-projects are the quack remedies of modern politics” Thursday’s Guardian had an article by Simon Jenkins on the HS3 proposal – High-speed 3? These mega-projects are...
Government moves cut HS2 campaign groups out of the democratic process. The Government is trying to gag the two national groups opposing HS2, by challenging their right to appear in...
A History of Washwood Heath At the Westminster Hall debate on the proposed Washwood Heath Marshalling Yard Liam Byrne, MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill,...
From the Archives: Jobs tomorrow – but not today Liam Byrne has organised a debate in Westminster Hall tomorrow, on the Washwood Heath RSMD Marshalling Yard. We...
Some recent news items The Guardian: HS2 safeguarding directions legally flawed, high court told Project opponents say transport secretary’s directions, intended to stop work...