View on HS2 from the Chilterns: ‘A big vanity project like Concorde’

Buckinghamshire villagers say the rail project has already caused irreversible damage
Frances Cutler, a resident of South Heath, a small village in Buckinghamshire, has never really believed that HS2 would be built. “It’s ludicrous,” she said, sitting in her sunny front room, 700 metres from where the high-speed trains are planned to emerge from a tunnel underneath the Chilterns. “We’ve been saying for years it was going to cost more than £100bn but nobody lis