Meeting at St Luke’s Church – ‘Fight HS2 plans’

Published: 6th May, 2011
by JOSH LOEB

DOZENS of residents packed into a meeting to discuss the controversial HS2 high-speed rail project.

Plans for the proposed link between London and the Midlands that will go under houses south of Kilburn Lane in Queen’s Park, and have sparked widespread concern in the area.

However, at Thursday’s meeting at St Luke’s Church in Fernhead Road, which was called by Westminster Labour, City Hall’s head of transport Graham King said the council had “not formally come to any view, either for or against” the government scheme.  

Mr King said: “We have access at the moment to the same amount of information that you do – what is on the website www.hs2.org.uk. That’s quite important for you to realise.”

Lizzy Williams, an activist opposing HS2 who had travelled from Oxfordshire to speak at the meeting, said: “They [HS2] are a quango and they have been instructed to deliver this project. Please do not accept that they are the private limited company that they purport to be.”