HS2 campaign
Yesterday 7th July 21 Hillingdon Green party wrote to Sir James Bevan the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency stating our dismay that the Colne Valley Viaduct is being built through the Drinking Water Safeguarded Areas of the Colne Valley in Hillingdon […]
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We are linking a news article from www.building.co.uk here. In it it states there was “real nervousness” on the part of one local water supplier, Affinity Water, and the Environment Agency, about the project’s 2,000 tonne tunnelling machines “losing cubes of material into an area which frankly they are not used to encountering”. Also that […]
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On the 4 March 2021, HS2 lost a Freedom of Information court case put forward by Coordinator of Hillingdon Green Party […]
HS2 loses court case on Hillingdon water quality […]
Hillingdon Green party believes that 2 proposed major HS2 planning applications threaten the quality of the daily drinking water to 1.3 million people. […]
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HS2: Why Green oppose […]
‘HS2 is Frankenstein’s monster’: Councillors slam ‘unacceptable’ disruption to Camden residents […]
Blackford Water Pumping Station, in Harefield is only 25 meters from the HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct. […]
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A team of ecologists have released a report giving evidence of a rare Barbastelle bat roost at Jones Hill Wood Buckinghamshire. This wood was the wood that inspired Roald Dahl to write The Fantastic Mr Fox. The report can be seen here. It was one of several bat species seen in the wood but is […]
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This beautiful 250+ year old still fruiting Cubbington Pear Tree much loved by the local community was felled by HS2 on 20th October.
It had been voted England Tree of the year in 2015. […]
