Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
I am most definately a NIMBY, there you are so need to level that at me as I hold my hands up, but ask yourself if youy would be happy.
The plans were announced this week for Phase 2 of the High speed Rail Link.
Within a mile of me there will be train lines and the rolling stock yard, on what is currently Greenbelt land, sports fields, houses, nature reserve, ancient woodland & sites of scientific importance. Rather than use all of the existing west coast line it will divert directly through where I live before joining back on again and into Wigan.
Currently if I go out of our estate, take a right and within 150 yds there's a place where you see kids crossing the road with ponies, soon there'll be a train thundering through there at 225mph, you wont even be able to go that way any more cutting us off from our nearest town. A Town which ironically is the biggest in the country to not be served by rail as it's always been dismissed as too costly, well things wont change then either as there wont be a station for us, just the line and the depot. We can serve it, but it wont serve us.
The footy pitches where 200+kids will play on a weekend will be directly below the tracks.
The local country park which David Bellamy has been developing over the years (Wigan Flashes) will be below it.
Wigan council are building 2500 homes here as part of a gov led initiative, I don't fancy their chances of flogging them since this announcement.
Apparently estate agents all along the route have reported that as soon as it was announced viewings were cancelled and they reckon that it's going to be nigh on impossible to sell houses near it, there'll be negative equity all over the place.
There's a long fight ahead & I'm deffo not gonna be sitting on my jacksie doing nothing.
HS2ChuffOff will be my call sign and tag.
The plans were announced this week for Phase 2 of the High speed Rail Link.
Within a mile of me there will be train lines and the rolling stock yard, on what is currently Greenbelt land, sports fields, houses, nature reserve, ancient woodland & sites of scientific importance. Rather than use all of the existing west coast line it will divert directly through where I live before joining back on again and into Wigan.
Currently if I go out of our estate, take a right and within 150 yds there's a place where you see kids crossing the road with ponies, soon there'll be a train thundering through there at 225mph, you wont even be able to go that way any more cutting us off from our nearest town. A Town which ironically is the biggest in the country to not be served by rail as it's always been dismissed as too costly, well things wont change then either as there wont be a station for us, just the line and the depot. We can serve it, but it wont serve us.
The footy pitches where 200+kids will play on a weekend will be directly below the tracks.
The local country park which David Bellamy has been developing over the years (Wigan Flashes) will be below it.
Wigan council are building 2500 homes here as part of a gov led initiative, I don't fancy their chances of flogging them since this announcement.
Apparently estate agents all along the route have reported that as soon as it was announced viewings were cancelled and they reckon that it's going to be nigh on impossible to sell houses near it, there'll be negative equity all over the place.
There's a long fight ahead & I'm deffo not gonna be sitting on my jacksie doing nothing.
HS2ChuffOff will be my call sign and tag.
