Residents were left unable to put their views to the HS2 Select Committee today – because the road taking the MPs to see them wasn’t wide enough.

A group of campaigners had gathered in Bottom House Farm Lane in Chalfont St Giles this morning, eagerly awaiting the chance to explain the impact HS2 would have on the neighbouring countryside.

But they were left stranded in the rain for nothing as the bus transporting the Select Committee around Bucks wasn’t able to reach them.

The lane leading to where the campaigners were waiting – by a proposed air vent for the tunnel set to be constructed under part of the Chilterns – wasn’t wide enough for the bus to get along.

Instead the bus had to reverse back up the lane, turn around and head back out on the A413, meaning the Committee missed out one of the places it intended to stop and visit on today's itinerary.

It is intended for Bottom House Farm Lane to take up to ten HGV movements in each direction per day while construction work on HS2 takes place.