I have been waiting for ten years to clarify when the house will be demolished due to long distance development – NRK Inland – Local news, television and radio

The cable car passes 25 meters from the 100 year old house in Stange. The house was built as a service residence by the National Administration of Railways. Must be demolished when dual track development begins.

The state will replace Christian Konradsen’s house so that he can build a new building, but he still lives in uncertainty.

For this week, development stopped again.

This time, after the government withdrew the approved draft from the revised national budget.

Consequently, Konradsen and the other 18 families who live along the route do not know when they can start again elsewhere.

Furious at the long-distance collapse

– It is very frustrating and difficult for us. We cannot sell because nobody wants to buy a house to be demolished. And we don’t get enough money to buy something new, says Arne Christian Konradsen.

Should be released this year

The government postponed the development of the InterCity route between Oslo and Hamar due to large budget overruns in Østfoldbanen, Follobanen and Vestfoldbanen.

In reality, construction of the Dovre Line would begin this year. The goal was for it to be completed in 2026 for Hamar, and that by 2034 the dual track should reach Lillehammer.

The 19 families living along the rail line in Stange have known that their houses had to be demolished when double tracks were built. But many of them have been waiting for 10 years for the clarification of financial compensation for the demolition of the house.

– They have spent many years waiting. First, if they are going to demolish the house, and then when we learn it will be demolished, it has always been postponed when it happens, says Arne Christian Konradsen.

He bought the house 13 years ago. Ten years ago he was told that the railroad track would be built for double track and that it would probably mean he had to move. And seven years ago, the property was leased due to development decisions in the national transportation plan.

As a daily commuter to Oslo, you are not opposed to the construction of dual tracks that make the travel route 20 minutes shorter and with the possibility of more departures per hour. He had only hoped they would release him.

I just have to wait

The properties must be exchanged at market price, as it would have been if the development of the railway had not come.

But Bane NOR is required to follow the legal planning process. They cannot buy property or pay compensation until the zoning plan is finally adopted.

“We are the first to complain about the situation of landowners on the road,” says Geir Kvillum, project manager for Bane NOR in the Kleverud-Sørli-Åkersvika section in Stange and Hamar.

Now they await the treatment of the revised national budget in the Storting before they can say anything more detailed about the consequences this will have.

“We have a great understanding that it is not desirable to have property in a consolidated area, either commercial or private,” says Kleverud.

He says Bane NOR is trying to find solutions with those who need it as much as possible.

For the past ten years, Arne Christian Konradsen has lived along the Dovre Line, has considered selling the house, and moving. But real estate agents have advised him to do so.

The properties cannot be substantially expanded or improved, and are impossible to sell.

He sees that the exterior panel of the old house should have been replaced, but he sees no reason to do so, as it will still be demolished. It must remain in it for so long.

– It feels useless and it’s a waste of money, he says.

Now development is on hold again, and must wait for Storting to reverse the postponement of the sasting government on the Dovre Line.