HS2 Euston link funding announced in Budget

Richard Olszewski, the leader of Camden Council, said the announcement on the Euston HS2 leg was “welcome news”.

“It helps to clarify that surrounds this whole area,” the Labour councillor said.

“The people who live around here have suffered 14 years of blight, disruption, loss of homes, loss of business income and a huge dislocation to their social and economic lives.”

He said he would await the plan’s details and look at how to bring the “much-awaited benefits for the people of Camden and the London-wide economy”.

London mayor Sadiq Khan said the funding would lead to the “improvement of the public realm around Euston like we’ve seen around King’s Cross and St Pancras”.