High Speed 2 Railway Line: Lichfield

(asked on 14th July 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Michael Fabricant Portrait
Michael Fabricant
(Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many houses in Lichfield constituency have been purchased by (a) the High Speed 2 Exceptional Hardship Scheme and (b) other related schemes since each such scheme was launched; and what the average cost has been of purchases under each such scheme.

Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 20th July 2017

The number and average value of houses purchased in the Lichfield constituency broken down by HS2 scheme/arrangement is as follows.

Scheme/Arrangement

Number of properties purchased

Average value of each purchase

Exceptional Hardship Scheme*

12

£549,235

Need to Sell

5

£550,500

Voluntary Purchase

2

£406,625

Statutory Blight

11

£829,636

Atypical arrangements

1

£406,625

*In May 2016 the Exceptional Hardship Scheme was withdrawn for the Phase 2a section of HS2 when the Need to Sell scheme was confirmed for this part of the route

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