Dorothea Hackman, Camden Civic Society
Published:
8:45 AM April 9, 2021
Adelaide Wood with the trees cut down for HS2
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Sad and scary events during our pandemic lockdown – remember no mingling yet though!
The saddest for nature conservation is the destruction of the two hundred year old Adelaide Road Woodland by High Speed 2. Their 2017 Hybrid Act permits demolishing three fifths of this Site of Importance for Nature Conservation to build a vent shaft for the tunnel they will construct, but said they must regenerate the green corridor along the railway tracks afterwards from the remaining 40%.
But they have felled all 500 trees, ignoring the ecology of bats and lizards. How will they regenerate from nothing?
Euston Square Gardens under HS2 eviction
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Our nightmare neighbour High Speed 2 is “a judge in its own cause”: Assurances of mitigations for all the damage they do to our community and up the line were given to parliament before the bill was passed in February, but HS2 are the ones to receive complaints and they brush them off. And their owner, the Department of Transport are equally dismissive. Weeks or months later the matter could go to a Commissioner, but the damage is already done.
So there is no way to hold HS2 to account over assurances. Camden Council has only just reported two possible breaches after residents have endured a year and a half of appalling demolitions, and HS2 has decided to cut down all 500 trees in the Adelaide Road Woodland – a Grade 1 site of importance for nature conservation (SINC) instead of the three hundred they told the House of Lords. And they haven’t completed the legally required tree and ecological surveys and t
Dorothea Hackman, Camden Civic Society
Published:
8:59 AM December 16, 2020
Updated:
9:21 AM December 16, 2020
Extinction Rebellion protest against the HS2 project
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This is urgent as High Speed 2 will continue felling Euston Trees within weeks.
Attend the Covid secure community meeting convened by Camden Civic Society, and sign the petition: Save Euston Trees from High Speed 2 (HS2) 6-8pm, on Thursday, December 17 at St Pancras Church Euston Road NW1 2BA - Facebook and please sign the petition.
At the HS2 quarterly “engagement” meeting Euston Community Representatives Group (ECRG) on December 1, community concerns were brushed aside. Big national infrastructure is built at a cost, and we are paying it for no benefit. HS2 has stopped even pretending to engage and mollify us.