HS2 track plans: Brand-new homes to be bulldozed as final plans are revealed

‘Residents living in a brand new housing development in Yorkshire have been told their homes will be bulldozed in order to make way for the final HS2 route.
Properties on the Shimmer housing estate in Mexborough will be bulldozed to make way for the high-speed railway, the Department for Transport said.
Ministers have officially confirmed the line will go through South Yorkshire, after scrapping a proposed station in Meadowhall in favour of a stop in Sheffield city centre.
Homes on the Shimmer estate, which was first established in 2012, are worth between £99,995 and £190,000.
HS2 claims the new route will affect fewer homes overall, save more than £1bn, and enable people to travel to London from Sheffield in 79 minutes instead of 120 minutes as under previous plans.’
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