'HS2 made me sell my home, two years later it's empty with the doors hanging off'

'HS2 made me sell my home, two years later it's empty with the doors hanging off'

A homeowner forced to sell his house to make way for the now-cancelled Birmingham-Manchester leg of HS2 has said it is a “travesty” that the property is sat empty and “falling apart” more than two years on. Mike Slater and his wife Jenni had to sell their Victorian farmhouse near Middlewich, Cheshire, in 2023 due to its proximity to the route of proposed high-speed rail line. However, the couple say it is now one of a number of properties in the…