News

One of Britain’s oldest schools, the Royal Latin School in Buckinghamshire, is the latest beneficiary of the HS2 Community and Environment Fund as it is announced today (Friday 27 November) that they have secured a £75,000 grant to transform their sporting facilities.

HS2 enabling works contractor, LMJV (Laing O’Rourke and J. Murphy & Sons), have presented a magnificent owl sculpture to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity alongside a £10,000 donation to support the work of the trust.

HS2 and the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) have agreed to work together to deliver the utility diversions required to enable the planned Birmingham Eastside extension to serve the new HS2 Curzon Street Station on its proposed route to Digbeth.

• HS2 invites contractors to bid for first major civils work north of the West Midlands
• £50m early works package signals new progress on delivering the benefits of high speed rail further north
• Separate ground investigation contract awarded to Balfour Beatty