Labour's last laugh? 250mph trains to Birmingham under leafy Primrose Hill

11.08.10

With the best will in the world, who is going to weep for Joan Bakewell because the house she bought for peanuts in the Sixties has shed a few hundred thousand pounds of value since Primrose Hill became the “preferred” route for High Speed 2? Nor will there be much sympathy for poor Jude, Helena , Sienna and Ewan.

A band of local activists — professional types, mostly, rather than the celebrities who get “papped” on the Hill every Saturday afternoon — have set up an anti-tunnel protest group, led by Richard Millett QC, a local resident who in a formal representation has skewered the rigged process by which the Government plans to ram HS2 through. But the locals are so concerned not to appear antagonistic that the protest group is known coyly as the Primrose Hill HS2 Reference Group.

Every conversation about the underground despoliation of the village starts with an assertion that no one must appear “nimbyish” about this, and how much everyone supports the principle of high-speed rail, and how committed everyone is to a low-carbon future. It's about the kids.

Source: This is London

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