High Speed Two Phase 2b ww.hs2.org.uk October 2018 Working Draft Environmental Statement High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: Community Area report | Volume 2 | LA12 LA12: Ulley to Bramley High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H23 hs2.org.uk October 2018 High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: Community Area report LA12: Ulley to Bramley H23 hs2.org.uk High Speed Two (HS2) Limited has been tasked by the Department for Transport (DfT) with managing the delivery of a new national high speed rail network. It is a non-departmental public body wholly owned by the DfT. 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High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA12 Contents Preface v Structure of the HS2 Phase 2b working draft Environmental Statement vi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Introduction to HS2 1 1.2 Purpose of this report 3 1.3 Structure of this report 3 2 Overview of the area and description of the Proposed Scheme 6 2.1 Overview of the area 6 2.2 Description of the Proposed Scheme 11 2.3 Construction of the Proposed Scheme 20 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 41 2.5 Route section alternatives 42 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 47 3.1 Introduction 47 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 47 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 48 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 49 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 55 4.1 Introduction 55 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 55 4.3 Environmental baseline 56 4.4 Effects arising during construction 63 4.5 Effects arising from operation 71 5 Air quality 73 5.1 Introduction 73 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 73 5.3 Environmental baseline 74 5.4 Effects arising during construction 75 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA12 5.5 Effects arising from operation 77 6 Community 79 6.1 Introduction 79 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 79 6.3 Environmental baseline 80 6.4 Effects arising during construction 82 6.5 Effects arising from operation 84 7 Ecology and biodiversity 86 7.1 Introduction 86 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 86 7.3 Environmental baseline 86 7.4 Effects arising during construction 90 7.5 Effects arising during operation 98 8 Health 100 8.1 Introduction 100 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 100 8.3 Environmental baseline 101 8.4 Effects arising during construction 103 8.5 Effects arising from operation 108 9 Historic environment 110 9.1 Introduction 110 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 110 9.3 Environmental baseline 112 9.4 Effects arising during construction 114 9.5 Effects arising from operation 117 10 Land quality 118 10.1 Introduction 118 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 118 10.3 Environmental baseline 119 10.4 Effects arising during construction 127 10.5 Effects arising from operation 134 11 Landscape and visual 136 11.1 Introduction 136 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 136 11.3 Environmental baseline 138 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 144 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 152 12 Socio-economics 160 12.1 Introduction 160 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 160 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA12 12.3 Environmental baseline 160 12.4 Effects arising during construction 163 12.5 Effects arising from operation 166 13 Sound, noise and vibration 167 13.1 Introduction 167 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 168 13.3 Environmental baseline 168 13.4 Effects arising during construction 169 13.5 Effects arising from operation 172 14 Traffic and transport 176 14.1 Introduction 176 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 176 14.3 Environmental baseline 176 14.4 Effects arising during construction 179 14.5 Effects arising from operation 185 15 Water resources and flood risk 188 15.1 Introduction 188 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 188 15.3 Environmental baseline 189 15.4 Effects arising during construction 198 15.5 Effects arising from operation 205 16 References 207 List of figures Figure 1: Structure of the working draft Environmental Statement ix Figure 2: The HS2 Phase 2b route and community areas 2 Figure 3: Community area context map 7 Figure 4: Location of construction compounds in the Ulley to Bramley area 24 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 27 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 28 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 37 Figure 8: Business sector composition in the RMBC area and the Yorkshire and the Humber Region 161 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the RMBC area and the Yorkshire and the Humber Region 162 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Springvale embankment main compound 29 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Ulley embankment satellite compound 30 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA12 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Bramley embankment satellite compound 34 Table 4: Consideration of local alternatives for Thurcroft auto-transformer feeder station 43 Table 5: Consideration of local alternatives for route of the Proposed Scheme through Bramley 45 Table 6: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 47 Table 7: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 50 Table 8: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 51 Table 9: Summary of characteristics of holdings 62 Table 10: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 67 Table 11: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 69 Table 12: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Ulley to Bramley area 89 Table 13: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 96 Table 14: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 99 Table 15: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area. 120 Table 16: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 123 Table 17: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located in the study area 124 Table 18: Current and historical industrial sites located in the study area 124 Table 19: Summary of sensitive receptors 126 Table 20: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 129 Table 21: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 133 Table 22: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 140 Table 23: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 146 Table 24: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 148 Table25: Operational phase significant landscape effects 153 Table 26: Operational phase significant visual effects 154 Table 27: Surface water body receptors 190 Table 28: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 192 Table 29: River flood risk sources and receptors 195 Table 30: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 195 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA12 Preface The working draft Environmental Statement This report forms part of Volume 2 of the working draft Environmental Statement (ES) for Phase 2b of High Speed Two (HS2). The purpose of the working draft ES is to provide the public and other stakeholders with an opportunity to review and comment on preliminary environmental information for Phase 2b of HS2, which is based on a stage in the ongoing design development and environmental assessment process. Nothing included at this stage is intended to limit the form of the final scheme that will be presented in the hybrid Bill and formal ES in light of further scheme development and the ongoing discussions with stakeholders such as Transport for the North and Midlands Connect. Consultation on the working draft ES is being undertaken to help inform the ongoing design and environmental assessment in advance of producing a statutory formal ES.