Living in Birmingham, spending money in London
Yesterday, at the Institute of Directors, David Higgins, incoming chair of HS2 Ltd said that he thought Birmingham could become...
Tag: Sustainability
New Parliamentary Inquiry – the Environmental Audit Committee
On Friday, the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee announced a new inquiry into HS2, to with submissions...
Government response to HS2 petition a “Depressingly Predictable Pack of Lies”
The Government has issued a response to an e-petition calling for the HS2 Paving Bill, which calls for Parliament...
HS2 battle will rumble on to Supreme Court
Today in the Court of Appeal, The Master of the Rolls (Lord Chief Justice Dyson), Lord Justice Richards and...
Judicial Review, Day 3
David Elvin QC began making HS2AA’s case on Tuesday afternoon (after lawyers for the 51M group of local authorities...
HS2 is the opposite of reducing carbon
At a New Economics Forum debate on HS2, Mayer Hillman of the Policy Studies Institute says we have to...
It’s a shame NPPF principles don’t apply to HS2
On Tuesday, the Government announced the National Planning Policy Framework, which sadly like the Communities Act will not apply...
Question Time
This is a guest post by Peter Delow: he blogs at HS2 and the Environment. For a newly-appointed or reshuffled...
Countryfile, HS2 & Questions?
Hopefully you saw Countryfile on Sunday when our Chairman Lizzy Williams spoke with John Craven about High Speed 2. ...
HS2 – Green Growth or Greenwash?
Many of the pro HS2 people appear to focus on the capital costs of the project and fail to...