HS2 Ltd Response - Judicial Reviews

Outcome of HS2 Judicial Reviews 

Dear Forum Member,

As you may already be aware, the judgements on the five Judicial Reviews brought against HS2 were made this morning at the High Court.

Of the ten broad areas of challenge made against HS2, the court has upheld only one.

The court has upheld the challenge that the consultation process for the original compensation scheme (February 2011) was unfair, as not enough information was provided to consultees and the criteria by which compensation options were considered were not adequately explained.

The Judge also found that the Government had not fully considered the detailed consultation response of the HS2 Action Alliance to the compensation proposals.

The Secretary of State has decided that instead of appealing this decision, the Government will re-run this consultation in line with the judge’s finding that further consideration should have been given to other potential compensation models. A re-run of the property compensation consultation will not affect the HS2 construction timetable. We will provide further information about the next steps on property consultation as soon as we can.

The Judge rejected the other areas of challenge. For more information on the Department for Transport website please click here.

Kind regards,

The Community Forum Team.