‘We survived HS2 – now a huge pipeline backed by Rachel Reeves could split our farm in two’

Peter Oakes’ Park Farm near Middlewich in Cheshire, which could have an underground pipeline laid down through its land, not long after HS2 planned for a high-speed line across its fields - (Supplied)

A dairy farmer whose farm escaped being cut in half by the scrapped HS2 line now faces having a huge underground gas pipeline running through his land.

Peter Oakes told The Independent he felt like he was “pushing s*** uphill” after a letter arrived at his Cheshire farm to alert him to a proposed 300-metre-wide pipeline through his 160 acres of farmland.