‘I sold my home to HS2 – it’s been turned into a cannabis factory’ | UK | News
A man selling his house to HS2 was horrified to find out that the high -speed railway line between Birmingham and Manchester was canceled after being canceled. In the 1970s, 85 -year -old Alan Wilkinson bought a four -bedroom house in the rural rural Whitmore Heath in Staffordshire with his wife Gillian in the 1970s – then added a swimming pool and kitchen to the area. However, after about thirty years of ownership, the couple sold the suggestions for the northern route, which will include the twin tunnels built under the slope of the slope, after the “Special Conditions” plan for HS2 for £ 1.2 million.
Tragically, Gillian would not live to see the cycles because the couple died of pancreatic cancer only weeks before the couple planned to shrink and move to another place. Six years later, Mr. Wilkinson discovered that the rented beloved house was used to raise large amounts of cannabis.
“I feel very bad about what happened, I feel right,” he said Independent. “I have lived there for 30 years; a large part of my life was a beautiful house and now sitting empty, abandoned.”
85 -year -old, a neighbor, trying to close the closing of the inhabitants and failed witnesses after a neighbor after a stock exchange learned the new use.
“My old neighbor saw [them] He said, ‘You will not find anyone there’ and said to them. It turned out that there were 184 cannabis plants growing inside. They could smell. “
Staffordshire police raided the facility soon and found plants growing in five rooms. An next investigation claimed that a man from Mersexia was guilty of the production of class B in Class B in July.
Since Mr. Wilkinson’s old house is purchased as part of the Breaking northern route of the High Speed Railway, HS2, which was a total of £ 1.9 million between 2023 and 2024, cost HS2 thousands of pounds.
85 -year -old Whitmore Heath said he heard the rumors of the property, which was 35 people sold to HS2.
“HS2 destroyed our village,” he said. “It was a good community where people who did this went to live. But the plans for the line smashed it. More than a dozen died while waiting to sell their homes.
“I can’t stand it to go back.
The scrap HS2 line between Birmingham and Manchester Cost Developers spent a wider £ £ $ 633 million in home purchase costs, a wider £ £ 3,79 billion to buy property for the project as a whole. The railway line between London and Staffordshire continues, although no opening date has been approved with a branch from Birmingham.
A HS2 spokesman said the line will work in a tunnel 30 meters below the village and that no landlord did not have to sell their property for development.
“We know Mr. Wilkinson’s difficult situation and agreed to buy our proposal in 2019 to buy his home through the special situations plan of HS2’s mobile costs, paid stamp tax and legal fees,” he added.
“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.”
