MORE than 100 residents crammed into a local community centre to voice their concerns about the changed proposed route of the HS2 high speed rail link.
Last Thursday saw HS2 Ltd, the company behind the project, hold a drop-in session at Hemsworth Community Centre after the initial route’s plan was altered.
The consultation saw drawings of the new route, which would run alongside the M18 motorway, meaning it would leave the Barnsley district at Brierley and enter South Elmsall and Hemsworth - affecting thousands of new residents in the process.
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