London homeowners 'trying not to panic' as HS2 tunnelling makes their Victorian homes 'sink and crack' and tenants are rehomed

Around a dozen homeowners on Claremont Road and Kilburn Lane in Queen's Park, north-west London, report that a tunnel boring machine passing roughly 18 metres beneath their streets between August 30 and September 13 left their Victorian properties cracked, sunken and structurally at risk.

Brent Council erected emergency scaffolding on one Claremont Road end-of-terrace after cracking reached dangerous levels, and ground-floor tenants were moved to alternative accommodation.

Resident Sonia, 57, said her front door could no longer open after the property sank, and a neighbour spotted a crack running the full height of his building in late September.