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Rothwell Country Park was one of the 13 Wildlife Trust sites within 500m of the proposed HS2 train line. The Wildlife Trust's 2020 report, "What's the Damage?", highlighted how the new proposed HS2 line would go further south into the site, where the highest level of biodiversity is, and that construction would have caused damage and possibly introduced invasive species that had been eradicated from the site back into Rothwell Country Park from its boundaries. <ref name="wtreport" /> The government's announcement that the East Midlands-Leeds high-speed line was to be scrapped<ref>Russell Hotten, BBC News (2021). "HS2 rail extension to Leeds scrapped amid promise to transform rail". [online]. Available at: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59334043> [Accessed 23/02/2022]</ref> meant that HS2 would not go through Rothwell Country Park. |
Rothwell Country Park was one of the 13 Wildlife Trust sites within 500m of the proposed HS2 train line. The Wildlife Trust's 2020 report, "What's the Damage?", highlighted how the new proposed HS2 line would go further south into the site, where the highest level of biodiversity is, and that construction would have caused damage and possibly introduced invasive species that had been eradicated from the site back into Rothwell Country Park from its boundaries. <ref name="wtreport" /> The government's announcement that the East Midlands-Leeds high-speed line was to be scrapped<ref>Russell Hotten, BBC News (2021). "HS2 rail extension to Leeds scrapped amid promise to transform rail". [online]. Available at: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59334043> [Accessed 23/02/2022]</ref> meant that HS2 would not go through Rothwell Country Park. |
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