Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: Community Area Report MA08: Manchester Piccadilly Station
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October 2018 High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: Community Area report MA08: Manchester Piccadilly Station H11 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 MA08: Manchester Piccadilly Station H11 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. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Two Snowhill Snow Hill Queensway Birmingham B4 6GA Telephone: 08081 434 434 General email enquiries: [email protected] Website: www.hs2.org.uk A report prepared for High Speed Two (HS2) Limited: High Speed Two (HS2) Limited has actively considered the needs of blind and partially sighted people in accessing this document. 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High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA08 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 15 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 31 2.5 Route section alternatives 32 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 33 3.1 Introduction 33 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 33 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 34 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 35 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 39 4.1 Introduction 39 5 Air quality 40 5.1 Introduction 40 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 40 5.3 Environmental baseline 41 5.4 Effects arising during construction 42 5.5 Effects arising from operation 44 6 Community 46 6.1 Introduction 46 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 46 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA08 6.3 Environmental baseline 47 6.4 Effects arising during construction 49 6.5 Effects arising from operation 52 7 Ecology and Biodiversity 54 7.1 Introduction 54 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 54 7.3 Environmental baseline 54 7.4 Effects arising during construction 57 7.5 Effects arising during operation 59 8 Health 61 8.1 Introduction 61 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 61 8.3 Environmental baseline 62 8.4 Effects arising during construction 64 8.5 Effects arising from operation 70 9 Historic environment 72 9.1 Introduction 72 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 72 9.3 Environmental baseline 74 9.4 Effects arising during construction 77 9.5 Effects arising from operation 82 10 Land quality 84 10.1 Introduction 84 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 84 10.3 Environmental baseline 85 10.4 Effects arising during construction 91 10.5 Effects arising from operation 98 11 Landscape and visual 100 11.1 Introduction 100 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 100 11.3 Environmental baseline 102 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 106 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 110 12 Socio-economics 116 12.1 Introduction 116 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 116 12.3 Environmental baseline 116 12.4 Effects arising during construction 119 12.5 Effects arising from operation 124 13 Sound, noise and vibration 125 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA08 13.1 Introduction 125 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 126 13.3 Environmental baseline 126 13.4 Effects arising during construction 127 13.5 Effects arising from operation 131 14 Traffic and transport 135 14.1 Introduction 135 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 135 14.3 Environmental baseline 136 14.4 Effects arising during construction 139 14.5 Effects arising from operation 145 15 Water resources and flood risk 149 15.1 Introduction 149 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 149 15.3 Environmental baseline 150 15.4 Effects arising during construction 157 15.5 Effects arising from operation 165 16 References 167 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 Manchester Piccadilly Station area 19 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 21 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 22 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 30 Figure 8: Business sector composition in MCC area and the North West, 117 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the MCC area and the North West, 118 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA08 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions to be managed from the Piccadilly viaduct satellite compound A 23 Table 2: Demolitions to be managed from the Piccadilly viaduct satellite compound B 23 Table 3: Demolitions to be managed from the Piccadilly viaduct satellite compound C 24 Table 4: Demolitions to be managed from the Piccadilly viaduct satellite compound D 24 Table 5: Demolitions to be managed from the Manchester Piccadilly High Speed station main compound 26 Table 6: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 33 Table 7: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 35 Table 8: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 36 Table 9: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Manchester Piccadilly Station area 56 Table 10: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 59 Table 11: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 86 Table 12: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 89 Table 13: Current and historical industrial sites located within the study area 89 Table 14: Summary of sensitive receptors 91 Table 15: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 94 Table 16: Summary of Significantly Affected LCAs 104 Table 17: Summary description and assessment of effect on LCAs 108 Table 18: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 109 Table 19: Operational phase significant landscape effects 111 Table 20: Operation phase significant visual effects 113 Table 21: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 121 Table 22: Significance of effects on resources 122 Table 23: Surface water body receptors 151 Table 24: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 152 Table 25: River flood risk sources and receptors 156 Table 26: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 157 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA08 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. The formal ES will accompany the deposit of the hybrid Bill for Phase 2b of HS2. Phase 2b comprises the section of the proposed HS2 rail network, from Crewe to Manchester (and a connection onto the West Coast Main Line (WCML)) (the western leg), and from the West Midlands to Leeds (and a connection onto, and part electrification of, the Midland Main Line (MML) and a connection onto the East Coast Main Line (ECML)) via the East Midlands and South Yorkshire (the eastern leg). Collectively, this is referred to in this working draft ES as the ‘Proposed Scheme’. The working draft ES describes the Proposed Scheme and reports its likely significant environmental effects and the measures proposed to mitigate those effects, based on a stage in the ongoing design and environmental assessment. The hybrid Bill for Phase One of the HS2 network, between London and the West Midlands, was the subject of an ES deposited in November 2013, followed by ESs deposited with Additional Provisions to that Bill in 2014 and 2015.