HS2 Judicial Review: Last Call for Evidence After an eight-month wait, we finally have a date for the permissions hearing of our Judicial Review, a legal...
“If you go down to the woods today” This is a guest post by Chrissie Aslett. “If you go down to the woods today”……you may experience the same...
HS2 conflicts with the Green Agenda This week, the Government unveiled the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution. One of the...
Covid means “The case for building HS2 has gone from questionable to completely non-existent.” Today, the Government announced the official start of construction on phase 1 of HS2, with Boris Johnson keen to...
Court of Appeal agrees to hear HS2 environmental challenge The Court of Appeal has decided to hear Chris Packham’s appeal regarding an application for permission for judicial review...
Chris Packham launches new challenge to HS2 go-ahead decision Broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham CBE is challenging the decision of the Prime Minister to give the go-ahead to...
Labour party commit to quarter of a trillion pounds on high speed rail Labour party commit to quarter of a trillion pounds on high speed rail In the Labour party manifesto launched today,...
There’s (nearly) no modal shift with HS2 HS2 won’t help with modal shift or reducing the amount of freight on the roads. Building HS2 has never...
The environmental opportunity costs of HS2 As part of the release of the New Economics Foundation report published last week, Friends of the Earth published...
HS2 Ltd Officially Admit HS2 Will Increase Carbon Emissions Back in the day, one of the big reasons for going ahead with HS2 was the supposed fact that...