Christopher Pincher Open Letter to the Lichfield Mercury – High Speed Rail Link
I would like to inform Mercury readers in Hints, Swinfen, Weeford and Canwell that I support Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant’s principled opposition to the present government’s proposed high speed rail route, revealed in last week’s paper. Their plan will drive straight through important local green spaces and cause major disruption to the lives of local residents. It is environmentally and socially unacceptable. And given that the high speed trains will not stop at Lichfield, there seems little economic benefit either to our local community. Indeed the plan may blight the value of many homes.
I am sure that a high speed link will be good for the country but this route is not good for our local community and along with Michael Fabricant I will not support it. We must lobby the Department for Transport for alternative routes and organise our opposition at the Planning Inquiry whenever it is convened.
Christopher Pincher
Parliamentary Spokesman, Hints, Swinfen & Tamworth
