Mitigating local planning concerns meant HS2 was always going to be expensive, says scheme’s former COO

By Carl Brown2024-03-18T07:00:00

Source: HS2 Ltd

Unfair to compare railway’s cost to those in Europe because of amount of tunnels and cuttings that have needed digging, Richard Robinson adds

The former chief operating officer of HS2 has blamed local planning concerns for the project’s escalating costs which prompted ministers to scale back the scheme last year.

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