I think it would be more interesting to see who is buying the land back
“£600m of public money spent buying up property in MIDDLE of England for HS2, because it was never going NORTH”
I can smell some corruption incoming. Tory donors and MPs buying the land at a reduced rate, possibly with the council’s giving the go-ahead to whatever planning permission they request.
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This is public money—so turn these lands into public parts/wildlife reserves. Rewild them, set the plots of land aside for nature.
Make it all one big public park. Then in 20 years time we might have a government competent enough to get the job done.
Seems like a bargain they spend 250 million a month just on hotels for folk who have no right to be here.
No doubt will be sold of ASAP for a fraction of this yet would probably be then be worth 2x this value if someone tries to buy it back in the future to actually build the Birmingham-Manchester line
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I think it would be more interesting to see who is buying the land back
“£600m of public money spent buying up property in MIDDLE of England for HS2, because it was never going NORTH”
I can smell some corruption incoming. Tory donors and MPs buying the land at a reduced rate, possibly with the council’s giving the go-ahead to whatever planning permission they request.
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This is public money—so turn these lands into public parts/wildlife reserves. Rewild them, set the plots of land aside for nature.
Make it all one big public park. Then in 20 years time we might have a government competent enough to get the job done.
Seems like a bargain they spend 250 million a month just on hotels for folk who have no right to be here.
No doubt will be sold of ASAP for a fraction of this yet would probably be then be worth 2x this value if someone tries to buy it back in the future to actually build the Birmingham-Manchester line