DID YOU KNOW ??

This caused such anguish to the people who had brought their homes. And then their homes had to make way for the new HS2.

HS2 is collecting almost £9m a year from renting out hundreds of homes that people were forced to sell in order to build the scrapped northern leg of the line, i can reveal.

Around £600m of taxpayer’s money was spent purchasing land and property for phases 2a and 2b of the high speed rail line connecting Birmingham to Manchester before it was axed by Rishi Sunak in October.

The spur to Leeds was cancelled in 2021.

HS2 Ltd’s property empire

Total number of properties being rented out: 1,206

Phase 1: 496 Phase 2a: 129 Phase 2b: 581

Total annual income from rental properties: £22m (2022-23)

Phase 1: £13m Phase 2a: £1.8m Phase 2b: £7.1m

Amazing !!!

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Sky News