![]() That scheme is now being taken over by an unspecified development corporation and it was not clear yesterday whether Mace remained on the project.Īn Arup spokesman said: “We will be working with HS2 to explore how existing contracts may be progressed or phased out as you would expect in the normal course of business.” Separately, construction giant Mace had been awarded a £500m joint contract to build HS2’s Euston station. Two other contracts, each worth £50m, were awarded to WSP and a consortium including Mouchel Limited, Arup, AECOM and WSP, for railway systems design and land-related services, such as engagement with landowners. Keir was also awarded a £100m contract for “enabling works” on the route between Birmingham and Crewe, while Balfour Beatty won a £100m contract for “early environmental works” and a £50m contract for ground investigations on the same stretch. Official documents published by HS2 show that £1.1bn of contracts related to the development of phase two have already been awarded.ĭeals include a project management contract worth a maximum of £250m, awarded to American engineering giant Bechtel.Īnother contract for professional services worth up to £500m was split between companies including Mott MacDonald, WSP Aecom, Ineco and Arup. Meanwhile, the future of more than £1bn worth of contracts to work on phase two of HS2 has now been thrown into doubt. ![]() Some of the land acquired near Manchester and Leeds is still needed for other rail schemes. The decision to scrap the northern leg of the railway project will raise questions over what happens to the properties now, with the Government on Wednesday saying it would seek to sell those no longer needed. Where it can, HS2’s policy has been to rent homes back out after buying them, but in many cases the homes have been left sitting empty. Of these, 185 were for the planned stretch from Crewe to Manchester and another 530 for the stretch from Birmingham to Leeds.Īmong them was a mansion sold by John Bishop, the comedian, for £6.8m in 2019. ![]() HS2 Ltd has to date spent £587m buying land and buildings for the sections that would have run from Birmingham on to Manchester and Leeds.ĩ54 properties were purchased. People living in homes along the originally proposed route – from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds in a ‘Y’ shape – have been able to either voluntarily sell their properties or had them forcibly purchased. The Government says it has already spent £2.3bn to date on phase two, in 2019 prices, including property purchases. The decision came despite the fact that HS2 Ltd, the government subsidiary in charge of the troubled mega project, has already spent significant sums buying land needed for the route, as well as on design and preparatory works. The future of the properties and contracts worth up to £1.1bn have been left in limbo after the Prime Minister officially confirmed that the Birmingham to Manchester section of the line, known officially as phase two, would be abandoned. The Government has been left with almost 1,000 properties acquired to make way for HS2’s northern leg after Rishi Sunak cancelled this section of the project.
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