Since the early hours of 27 January, nine activists from the campaign group HS2 Rebellion have been occupying a network of tunnels they and others dug out.
Euston Square Gardens under HS2 eviction
- Credit: Dorothea Hackman
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
Bailiffs are continuing to try to remove anti-HS2 protesters from tunnels by Euston station, after a demonstrator attached himself to the structure.
A group of at least six activists have spent more than a week in a network of tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens.
Dr Larch Maxey, one of the demonstrators, said on Thursday that bailiffs had dug a parallel “down shaft” and connected it to the protesters’ one.
Eviction efforts continued on Friday as bailiffs tried to remove another environmental campaigner from a “lock-on” at the bottom of a down shaft.
The demonstrator, Lazer Sandford, attached himself to a tunnel using a device made of steel and concrete around his arm.
London Scene: The best of London s stage and screen this week
12th Nov 2012 4:17pm | By Editor The best of stage and screen in the capital this week, plus a this week s must-see art exhibitions and comedy to boot.
COMEDY | L
ive at The Chapel: Reggie Watts
You can expect improvised music, comedy and, more than likely given the developments of last week, a little political commentary, too. The versatile New Yorker is a wholly unique performer – a one man band/show/rapping powerhouse, if you will – who has to be seen to be believed.
Union Chapel
eath: a self portrait