For The Sake Of Progress?
Four Grade II listed buildings, 600 homes to be bulldozed, 340 homes to be cut off from wider infrastructure, 250 acres of green belt land and sites of special scientific interest set to be unearthed and demolished. All for what? For The Sake Of Progress?
The High Speed 2 is a proposed railway in the United Kingdom linking London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Separated into two routes: Phase One - London to West Midlands (planned for 2026), Phase Two - West Midlands, Leeds and Manchester (planned for 2032) with a current projected cost of £55.7bn.
The emergence of the ultra-high speed rail and the new routes are set to cause substantial effect of those in its way. It is set to destroy 27 listed buildings, 14 Grade II listen buildings, 600 homes, 340 homes to be cut off from their wider infrastructure and 1,000 commercial buildings are set to be affected. The infatstrcutrue supporting the line will be built on 25 miles of floodplains increasing the risk f perilous flooding in several critical locations, while over 100 wildlife habitats and 250 acres of green belt land will be directly affected.
In this series, I have travelled to the proposed locations to study the organic essence of rural and cosmopolitan, revealing literal depictions of where the tracks will lay and all that will be destroyed by the arrival of the HS2.
Everything you see in these photographs soon will not exist.
Sign the petition below to Stop the HS2:
Stop HS2 Action Group
‘For The Sake Of Progress?’ was released as a publication by Doc.Studio in 2020.
‘Degree Show’ May 2018, Leeds College of Art.
‘ArtFest’ February 2018, Canal Mills, Leeds.
‘The Truth Claim’ 2018, Leeds College of Art.
‘ArtFest’ Autumn 2017, The Brunswick, Leeds.
Four Grade II listed buildings, 600 homes to be bulldozed, 340 homes to be cut off from wider infrastructure, 250 acres of green belt land and sites of special scientific interest set to be unearthed and demolished. All for what? For The Sake Of Progress?
The High Speed 2 is a proposed railway in the United Kingdom linking London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Separated into two routes: Phase One - London to West Midlands (planned for 2026), Phase Two - West Midlands, Leeds and Manchester (planned for 2032) with a current projected cost of £55.7bn.
The emergence of the ultra-high speed rail and the new routes are set to cause substantial effect of those in its way. It is set to destroy 27 listed buildings, 14 Grade II listen buildings, 600 homes, 340 homes to be cut off from their wider infrastructure and 1,000 commercial buildings are set to be affected. The infatstrcutrue supporting the line will be built on 25 miles of floodplains increasing the risk f perilous flooding in several critical locations, while over 100 wildlife habitats and 250 acres of green belt land will be directly affected.
In this series, I have travelled to the proposed locations to study the organic essence of rural and cosmopolitan, revealing literal depictions of where the tracks will lay and all that will be destroyed by the arrival of the HS2.
Everything you see in these photographs soon will not exist.
Sign the petition below to Stop the HS2:
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/62507
Stop HS2 Action Group
‘For The Sake Of Progress?’ was released as a publication by Doc.Studio in 2020.
‘Degree Show’ May 2018, Leeds College of Art.
‘ArtFest’ February 2018, Canal Mills, Leeds.
‘The Truth Claim’ 2018, Leeds College of Art.
‘ArtFest’ Autumn 2017, The Brunswick, Leeds.
