It is ridiculous that this Plan makes no provision for or response to the possibility that HS2 will happen.
The JPC believes that in its current format HS2 will not benefit and will significantly disadvantage all communities south of Birmingham. We believe that WDC should be actively supporting the concept of High Speed Rail BUT demanding that:
a) it links directly with Eurostar
b) there is at least one station south of Birmingham (possibly Coventry, Northampton, Daventry, Milton Keynes, etc which would allow folk living south of B/ham to usefully access the system. We accept that only a percentage of trains would need to stop at such extra stations, much in the way that Ashford, in Kent, is currently used.

These changes would then provide significant benefits to much of the area to be blighted by an otherwise fatally flawed scheme.