Hansom: Industry exposure

By Hansom2018-07-06T06:00:00

The housing sector gets a dressing-down on The Archers, the leader of the Lib Dems unsettles the RIBA and Interserve skirts around the issue of a major loss. Well, they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity …

Leave it out

I was delighted to learn that HS2 plans to build a “green corridor” featuring 7 million trees along the first phase of the train route from London to Birmingham. As well as the trees, there will be fauna-friendly things such as bat houses and more than 200 ponds for great crested newts and other amphibians. All good stuff, but I couldn’t help wondering why HS2 thinks trees near the line are going to be a good thing when Network Rail plans to fell a similar number in order to save commuters from the annual hell that is “leaves on the line”.

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