More than 20 seats in Scotland could swing to Labour in a UK election, pollsters sayThose who sold their homes along the cancelled northern leg of HS2 may have to pay significantly more to buy them backFamilies who sold their homes along the cancelled HS2 northern leg could have to pay hundreds of thousands more if they want their properties back,and, under law, must offer the original owners the right to buy their homes back before putting them on the open market.
Even an owner that sold up in 2021, when the average house price in England was around £250,000, would have to pay 22 per cent more to buy back at today’s market value. “It’s the stress and the effects on their mental health that has been quite hard to witness actually. And it doesn’t matter whether that’s somebody in the smallest cottage or the largest farm. It’s their home and it is going to be taken from them.revealed that the Government is still buying homes via CPOs even though the northern leg of HS2 was cancelled by Rishi Sunak on Wednesday.
Of this amount, £562m was spent on 824 homes along the axed line between Birmingham and Manchester, although agents representing sellers along the route believe this figure could rise to as much as £700m due to sales already at an advanced stage of negotiation. The case centred on 725 acres of agricultural land at Crichel Down, near Long Crichel in Dorset, which was owned by Captain Napier George Henry Sturt, the 3rd Baron Alington.
In 1941, war time prime minister Winston Churchill pledged in parliament that land would be returned to its owners after the Second World War, when it was no longer required by the RAF, but this promise was not kept.