Inside the village where family homes were bought up to make way for HS2

Jamie Stephenson, the chair of Madeley Parish Council, reacts to the scrapping of HS2's Birmingham-Manchester leg.

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A village where huge swathes of family homes were bought up to make way for HS2 has ‘suffered immensely’, one of its councillors has said. Earlier today Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the route will be axed, claiming the £32 billion saved will be invested in other transport projects in the north.

‘That has to be looked at now – how does that redress happen? ‘This area has suffered immensely – even though it is not going ahead, people have lost land, farmers have lost land, land has been carved up – how will they be compensated? And how will the area be compensated for the hassle and the issues over the past 10 years? ‘It is the right decision but it’s a decision that should have been made years ago.

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