HS2 Plough Through Countryside

So, the HS2 railway from London to Birmingham has been given the go ahead. One thing I heard on the radio is that it will mean the destruction of 48 ancient woodlands. Remember the Newbury Bypass, that was probably only a few miles of road, so imagine the protests against the HS2. Like so many of these big building projects they always come back to the same root cause, over population. More people equals more roads, schools, train tracks, and housing needs to be built. Last year alone net immigration was 252,000, that is a city the size of Nottingham! This has been going on for over a decade now, so now the infrastructure is beginning to be built to cope with all the extra millions, wait until the big house building schemes get underway, parts of England will never be the same again.