Historic England commended the team for revealing “new and exciting sites spanning over 10,000 years of our past”.<\/p>\n
But building HS2 has changed the landscape along its route, cutting into fields and communities, and dividing opinion.<\/p>\n
Critics, such as Greg Smith, MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, say soaring costs, delays, abandoned villages and damage to the natural and historic environment mean that it is not worth building.<\/p>\n
“It should not have cost the taxpayer tens of billions of pounds to build a railway that no-one wants and brings so much destruction,” Smith says. <\/p>\n
HS2 said in response: “Chief Executive Mark Wild has been clear that overall delivery of HS2 has been unacceptable and he’s committed to ending the project’s cycle of cost increases and delays.”<\/p>\n
“Our specialist archaeology team and contractors have carefully excavated numerous sites and have shown care and respect throughout this work.”<\/p>\n
“Whether HS2 is a good or bad thing is debatable, but I tell you what, if they built the railway and they didn’t do the archaeology that would be more tragic,” said historian Graham Evans, who chairs the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic England commended the team for revealing “new and exciting sites spanning over 10,000 years of our past”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-398383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}