Residents in a Staffordshire village where HS2 bought up family homes to make way for the line to Manchester have “suffered immensely” and will be “relieved” to hear it has been cancelled – but now they must be compensated, a local councillor has said.
Cllr Jamie Stephenson, the chairman of Madeley Parish Council, near Stoke-on-Trent, said the controversial rail project has already had a “major impact” on the villages of Madeley, Whitmore and others nearby despite still being in the early stages of work, with farmers “turfed out” of their land and family homes emptied.
