Labour figures in Yorkshire have called on the government for the second time to end a ‘blight’ on residents’ lives caused by the now-scrapped HS2 rail link.
The Government scrapped the South Yorkshire leg of the high-speed train line in 2021, and is still not allowing earmarked land to be built on or sold – but say the safeguarding ‘will be amended by summer next year’. Now, in letters to ministers, Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey, Council Leader Chris Read, and Rother Valley’s Labour prospective parliamentary candidate Jake Richards have urged the government to remove the safeguarding.
In October 2023, it was confirmed that the new line between Birmingham and Manchester has been scrapped altogether. In his letter, MP John Healey says: “From day one, I opposed this route and worked with our HS2 community action groups, rail experts and local councils to demolish the flawed case for switching the HS2 route from Meadowhall to the M18… There can be no reason now not to lift ‘safeguarding land restrictions’ imposed by Ministers for HS2 on large areas of land in Rotherham.
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