• I AM truly shocked by the revelation that HS2 intends to use Phoenix Road as the route for passengers to commute between Euston’s HS2, and St Pancras International Stations.

Is this why 42 Phoenix Road was demolished? I understood earlier that they were considering using Lancing Street for this purpose (by the food bank) and to bulldoze all the social blocks of flats and buildings in their way in-between.

Nevertheless it’s clear that using Phoenix Road as a public thoroughfare would be an absolute winner for HS2 (to stealthily grab this land and street, using taxpayers’ money, without their consent) with its wide, straight, unobtrusive, and direct views, linking both stations.

However this will mean drawing a dividing line right down the middle of Somers Town, creating a massive, busy, highway, that will cut directly through it, severing and disconnecting this close-knit community into two halves; with people not given any legal rights, or any say whatsoever, over their own destiny.

This will further hit the lives and spirit of the residents of Somers Town, who have managed to keep this diverse and unique, centuries-old, village-like, community intact. Until HS2 came along!

This irreversible destruction is heartbreaking and HS2s’ lawless, cruel, callous, corrupt, behaviour towards them cannot be allowed to continue.

Please get everyone you possibly can to sign Chris Packham’s petition – Stop work on HS2 immediately and hold a vote to repeal the legislation.

Though it is already successfully being considered for debate in parliament, and is growing rapidly, more signatures will leave the government and HS2 in no doubt that HS2 in not wanted!

MIMI ROMILLY,
NW5