Local authorities directly benefiting from the Government's flagship High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) project face additional costs and the sacrifice of land to support the £33bn scheme, the Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed.

A DfT command paper on the project published last week, suggests it is 'fair and right' that parties benefiting from HS2 including councils and businesses 'work collaboratively with the Government on options to support the project financially'.