Land on axed HS2 routes will not be protected

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Land earmarked for the HS2 routes now scrapped will not be protected for potential future expansion of the high-speed railway, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed.

Under a process known as safeguarding, land on those routes was protected to stop conflicting developments taking place.

The DfT said safeguarding will be lifted in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Yorkshire “at the earliest opportunity” to “remove the uncertainty that has surrounded thousands of people along the route”.

It went on: “The land acquisition programme on Phase 2a (between the West Midlands and Crewe) will be halted immediately and HS2 will not be accepting new applications under the existing schemes from property owners in the areas where safeguarding is going to be lifted.

Rail engineer and writer Gareth Dennis wrote on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, that the Government’s actions were “deliberate vandalism”.

For Phase 2b – between the West Midlands and Manchester – safeguarding will be amended by summer 2024 to allow for plans under Northern Powerhouse Rail.

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Now that is fucking stupid.
- No its not it gets the land were its supposed to be for as cheap as possible so the can sell it back to the government for hs3 at inflated prices
  Its the tory way the cunts that they are
  
  And then they cancel HS3 and then buy them off the government at a cheap price and start the cycle over again
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Land earmarked for the HS2 routes now scrapped will not be protected for potential future expansion of the high-speed railway, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed.
Under a process known as safeguarding, land on those routes was protected to stop conflicting developments taking place.
The DfT said safeguarding will be lifted in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Yorkshire “at the earliest opportunity” to “remove the uncertainty that has surrounded thousands of people along the route”.
It went on: “The land acquisition programme on Phase 2a (between the West Midlands and Crewe) will be halted immediately and HS2 will not be accepting new applications under the existing schemes from property owners in the areas where safeguarding is going to be lifted.
Rail engineer and writer Gareth Dennis wrote on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, that the Government’s actions were “deliberate vandalism”.
For Phase 2b – between the West Midlands and Manchester – safeguarding will be amended by summer 2024 to allow for plans under Northern Powerhouse Rail.
The original article contains 338 words, the summary contains 173 words. Saved 49%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
This is my surprised face.