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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘I sold my beautiful £4m home for HS2 eight years ago – and it’s sat empty ever since’

Rachel Halvorsen sold her £4m property to make way for the London to Birmingham HS2 leg - (Rachel Halvorsen)

A woman who sold her £4m home to the government eight years ago because of HS2 says the 10-bedroom property still lies empty despite a national housing crisis.

Rachel Halvorsen cut the multimillion-pound deal with the Department for Transport (DfT) to sell the property, in Brackley in Northamptonshire, which her family converted from a barn back in 1915.

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