[youngtaff]

Do you know how Compulsory Purchase Orders work?

Many people along the HS2 route have been paid double the market price of their house

[ErroneousBosh]

Yes, because a demolished house is a brownfield site which automatically has outline planning consent and you can build just about anything you like on it. It's worth a fortune.

A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it.

[youngtaff]

> A farmer's field without planning consent is bought from the farmer priced as a worthless patch of mud, but taxed as though it already had a couple of dozen £500k rabbit hutch houses built on it.

Farm land isn't taxed - it's exempt from business rates

[whywhywhywhy]

Doesn’t matter what the price is if you lose your community.

Very narrow minded view that doesn’t take into account people over 60

[pjc50]

Everything in UK politics takes into account people over 60. What we need is some policies taking into account people under 60.

[nly]

The over 60s in the UK are probably the most privileged demographic in the history of the nation.

Just last October the government reduced tax free savings allowances on the Cash ISA for everyone...except he over 60s.

The over 60s have iron-clad "triple locked" state pensions that are _guaranteed_ to grow unsustainably (faster than tax revenue) at the cost of the working tax payer.

We need infrastructure and productivity growth, so the over 60s can take their gold plated compulsory buyouts and go do one.

[youngtaff]

As someone who is in their 50s I'd disagree with you

Very few people are losing their communities due to HS2