Submission statement: I can think of no better example for how planning law hobbles national projects than the case given in this article. Extending a tunnel drove NIMBY backlash and a judge ruled that even though the tunnel was authorized under law, the change in plans meant that HS2 needed to go back and resubmit for planning permission and erred in not doing so.
Posted by jadebenn
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oi
Amazing how England went from owning half the world to not even being able to build a train tunnel
Nimbyimaxxing
If I type my true thoughts I’ll get banned
> HS2 has already constructed the 5.8km (3.6 miles) long Bromford Tunnel, the longest rail tunnel to be built in the West Midlands, between Water Orton in Warwickshire and Washwood Heath in Birmingham.
This sentence emits so many English particles my water has tranmuted into tea.