‘I bought my wonderful home for £1.2m – but HS2 came along, and I could be forced to sell for £757k’
The mother of three years of age says she might have to interrupt her home due to the “destructive” effect on the village of an underwater HS2 line.
Steph Wilkin and his ex -husband, after the success of the couple in a local electronic assembly company, in 2009, in the Leafy community of Whitmore in Staffordshire II.
However, despite his love for the “wonderful house oluş, sitting on a nine -acre field and having two big lakes, he signed a financial solution for the sale of 56 -year -old Lake House and to get 62 percent of the divorced couple in 2020.
Wilkin, a topographic surveyor who bought the house worth £ 1.2 million a year ago, hoped to pay about £ 600,000 from the sale of a new home in West Sussex, which would pay for a new home in West Sussex.
Leaving the money, he said he would go to a private pension. Meanwhile, the house he bought after moving from Lake House would be rented to help his monthly income.
However, Ms. Wilkin said that the future plans were thrown into the air with the effect that triggers panic among the local inhabitants who cannot sell from a tunnel to the west of the village of the expected arrival of the second leg of the high -speed HS2 line.
However, the couple was able to make an agreement with HS2, because they were able to buy their homes on behalf of the transport department – but when the offer arrived for £ 757,500, Mrs. Wilkin saw that their expected revenues were up to 284,000 £.
Now, after delaying the decision to sell, he said he was facing a divorce hearing in November that he could be forced to sell the house.
“If the judge forces me to sell me to HS2, I come with £ 280k, and I certainly can’t do anything about it,” he said. Independent.
“Thinking about how much we paid for it then renewed the property, made the HS2 a great home before planning, and the value was destroyed with the future plans I had with money.
“Whitmore was the ‘Beverley Hills of Stoke-On-Trent’, but since the line was proposed, nobody can sell, no one wants to move here, and significantly affected the housing market and local society.
“Even now, two years after the line was canceled [in October 2023]A ghost town, the shadow of the village where it was once. “
The HS2 came to the last proposal after three values ranging from £ 1.4 million to £ 1.4 million. The quantity was the average of the two closest values - and there was no opportunity to object.
The HS2 spokesman said the values were based on the property of the property as if there was no plan for the high -speed line, and that at least one royal was reviewed by the surveyor recorded by the surveyor.
To sell in the alternative open market for Mrs. Wilkin and her ex -husband.
However, Mrs Wilkin said, “A beautiful area and HS2 line are no longer here, but no one wants to come here.
“It only shows the destructive effect on a beautiful village that the line will never be built.”
According to those who live there, it is a similar situation in the nearby Whitmore Heath hamlet. 35 of the 50 houses in the village were purchased by HS2, many of which have large gardens generous mansions.
Paul Northcott, a member of the Regional Assembly of Ashfield, said, “Whitmore Heath was the region of the region, but the community was disintegrated.” “Entering and going, it was torn apart by people who rented short -term.”
Earlier this year, Independent In Hamlet, a man who sold his house to HS2 was reported, but to discover that it was later transformed into a cannabis factory.
HS2 LTD spokesman, who commented on Mrs. Wilkin’s case: “HS2 LTD has a number of taxpayers, which are a series of property schemes for both the landlords and to support people living near the railway.
“After reviewing the case, we are sure that the proposal for the Lake House is a fair prediction about the value of the property today.”
