The failed northern leg of HS2 has left thousands of people whose land was purchased for the high speed rail scheme in the lurch. Lucy Denton reports on the latest.
‘It’s gone from consultation to confrontation,’ says Edward Cavenagh-Mainwaring, landowner and farmer of the Whitmore Hall Estate in Staffordshire, 260 acres of which was acquired by HS2 Ltd only days before the intended route of the phase 2a section was axed. ‘I feel the compulsory purchase process…
