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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘HS2 won’t sell me my rental house - despite it being more than a kilometre from high-speed line’

A couple renting a home managed by HS2 have been told they cannot buy the house - despite it being more than a kilometre away from the incomplete high-speed line.

Phil Allman and his wife Lita moved into the four-bedroom detached house in the village of Lea Marston, on the outskirts of Birmingham, in 2018, three years after the Department for Transport bought it for £310,000.

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