Masterplans for the future of Swift House have been announced at a conference in France this week (March 14).
Swift House, which sits next to Stoke-on-Trent railway station, currently houses a small number of city council and private sector staff.
After a four month consultation, Sir David Higgins says despite budget cuts and outrage from the locals, HS2 will still go through Crewe.
Local Businessmen, councillors and the Chairman of HS2 sat down yesterday (23rd) to discuss future plans involving Crewe Hub Station.
A former MOD site could be transformed into a ‘garden village’ on the back of HS2 plans.
Plans showing how HS2 will slice through a golf course near Lichfield have been revealed to members.
Members of Whittington Heath Golf Club, were shown the drastic changes to make way for the train line this week.
Councillors have defended Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s decision to spend up to £1m to get a new station for the city on the planned High Speed 2 railway line.
They agreed to increase their spending by an extra £800,000 on their campaign to get a new station for the HS2 line – despite plans in place already for a station at Crewe.
Staffordshire Borough Councillors have opposed plans for the Hs2 high-speed railway, claiming it has no benefit for the county’s residents or businesses.
City councillors voted for a “once in a lifetime chance” to bring the proposed HS2 rail network to Stoke-on-Trent.
They will now challenge the government’s current plans which are for Crewe to receive the planned hub station along the route linking Birmingham to Manchester with the Potteries missing out.
The controversial HS2 high-speed rail section through Staffordshire could be completed seven years earlier than expected, a new government report says.
Phase 1 of the scheme, the line from London to Birmingham, is due for completion in 2026.
Campaigners against HS2 claim the planned railway is causing so much distress that people are suicidal.
Robert Gasch, who is involved with the Marston Against HS2 group, said plans for the high-speed railway that will run through Staffordshire without a stop, have left people devastated.
Two Staffordshire brothers who face losing their 100-year-old family farm to HS2 , slammed the authorities for “lacking respect”.
Robert and Gordon Davies, of Middleton House Farm near Tamworth, will see land and buildings destroyed if construction begins.