‘I sold my home to HS2 for scrapped line for £1.2m – only for it to be turned into a cannabis factory’
A man who sells his house to HS2 says he was miserable after he discovered that he was transformed into a cannabis factory.
Alan Wilkinson bought a four -bed -room luxury house in the Yapraklı Yamaç Village in Staffordshire with his wife Gillian in the late 1970s.
The couple added a swimming pool to the plush property and the new kitchen-buttoned hamlet when offers for the HS2 line under the hamlet emerged, they pushed forward with their plans to shrink and sell.
Triggered war To sell the house to HS2, he would not see Gillian’s end of Gillian because he died of pancreatic cancer two weeks before the planned relocation in 2019.
The detached property did not need to lead to the line, but the couple settled in an agreement with HS2, which purchased under the “Special Conditions” purchasing plan.
However, Mr. Wilkinson was shocked when he discovered that his old house was used to grow cannabis plants later.
85 -year -old “My former neighbor two Jehovah’s witnesses saw the old driving and said to them ‘you will not find anyone there’.
“’No, but there is cannabis,’ they answered. Apparently there were 184 cannabis plants growing inside.
Mr. Wilkinson, who said that the swimming pool had been removed before rented and the swimming pool was removed, one of the hundreds of properties that require revenue is now empty, HS2 £ 1.9 million on 2023/24.
“Terrible,” he said. “Honestly, I feel terrible about what happened. I have lived there for 30 years; a large part of my life was a beautiful house and now sitting empty, abandoned.
“I hear rumors that this will be flat and rebuilt.”
Wilkinsons’ house was one of the 35 people sold to HS2 under a series of sales plans as a twin tunnel planned under HS2’s top village of HS2.
Some are now rented, a number is thought to be suitable for the permission market while sitting empty.
The tension of the community worsened by the decision of the Torah government at the time of the decision to scrape the part of the Torah government that would move from Birmingham to Manchester in 2023.
Mr. Wilkinson said: “HS2 destroyed our village. It was a good community of people who did and went to live. But the plans for the line smashed it, and more than a dozen died while waiting to sell their homes.
“I can’t stand it to go back, with my wife, too many memories, they’re all gone.”
Mr. Wilkinson, who served as the president of Whitmore Parish Council, was at the center of the community’s dispute with HS2 because he sought agreements to sell the indigenous people’s homes.
When his wife worsened, in 2018, he went to London to give a petition for HS2 to sell houses at the high -speed railway Bill Committee.
He was asked about the impact of HS2 plans on the health of his family, and Mr. Wilkinson said: “Yes, of course he did. [have an impact]. HS2 was the worst thing for Whitmore Heath. “
The houses purchased by HS2 at Whitmore Heath, and the houses of Axed Hat up to Manchester, have been under scrap almost two years ago.
In total, the HS2 spent £ 3.79 billion in the general line, including £ 633 million in the broken broken parts of the route.
A HS2 spokesman said that the line would work in a tunnel up to 30 meters under Whitmore Heath, and that no landlord was forced to sell his property to build a railway.
They continued: “We are familiar with Mr. Wilkinson’s difficult situation and accepted our proposal in 2019 to purchase his home through the special cases plan of HS2, where we welcome the mobile costs, paid stamp tax, and legal fees.
“We completely condemn the illegal use of the property acquired by the project used as a cannabis farm. The open rental market was allowed and managed by the property agencies to help the taxpayer compensate for costs.
“We haven’t been able to listen to the property since the farm was closed by the police, because the costs of returning it to a leturable state is very large. The area is patrolling by our private security teams working close to Staffordshire Constabulary.”
Staffordshire police, Liverpool, Gomville Road, 32 of Darren Pinnington, were accused of concern about the production of a controlled drug of a controlled drug in May.
In July, he was found guilty of the accusation in Stoke-On-Trent Crown Court and was waiting for the punishment.
The HS2 section, which is still ongoing, will work with a spur to Birmingham from London to Handacre in Staffordshire, but delays and spiral costs mean that a target date has not yet been announced to open.
