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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 | LA05 LA05: Ratcliffe-on-Soar to Long Eaton High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H16 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 LA05: Ratcliffe-on-Soar to Long Eaton H16 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: LA05 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 and status 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 13 2.3 Construction of the Proposed Scheme 23 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 46 2.5 Route section alternatives 47 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 57 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 58 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 59 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 66 4.1 Introduction 66 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 66 4.3 Environmental baseline 67 4.4 Effects arising during construction 74 4.5 Effects arising from operation 80 5 Air quality 82 5.1 Introduction 82 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 82 5.3 Environmental baseline 83 5.4 Effects arising during construction 84 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA05 5.5 Effects arising from operation 86 6 Community 88 6.1 Introduction 88 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 88 6.3 Environmental baseline 89 6.4 Effects arising during construction 92 6.5 Effects arising from operation 99 7 Ecology and biodiversity 101 7.1 Introduction 101 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 101 7.3 Environmental baseline 101 7.4 Effects arising during construction 110 7.5 Effects arising during operation 122 8 Health 125 8.1 Introduction 125 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 125 8.3 Environmental baseline 126 8.4 Effects arising during construction 129 8.5 Effects arising from operation 137 9 Historic environment 139 9.1 Introduction 139 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 139 9.3 Environmental baseline 142 9.4 Effects arising during construction 147 9.5 Effects arising from operation 151 10 Land quality 153 10.1 Introduction 153 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 153 10.3 Environmental baseline 154 10.4 Effects arising during construction 168 10.5 Effects arising from operation 178 11 Landscape and visual 180 11.1 Introduction 180 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 180 11.3 Environmental baseline 182 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 192 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 202 12 Socio-economics 213 12.1 Introduction 213 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 213 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA05 12.3 Environmental baseline 213 12.4 Effects arising during construction 216 12.5 Effects arising from operation 221 13 Sound, noise and vibration 223 13.1 Introduction 223 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 224 13.3 Environmental baseline 224 13.4 Effects arising during construction 225 13.5 Effects arising from operation 228 14 Traffic and transport 232 14.1 Introduction 232 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 232 14.3 Environmental baseline 233 14.4 Effects arising during construction 236 14.5 Effects arising from operation 242 15 Water resources and flood risk 247 15.1 Introduction 247 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 247 15.3 Environmental baseline 248 15.4 Effects arising during construction 258 15.5 Effects arising from operation 269 16 References 271 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 Ratcliffe-on-Soar to Long Eaton area 28 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 30 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 32 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 44 Figure 8: Business sector composition in the EBC area and the East Midlands 214 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the EBC area and the East Midlands 215 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the River Soar satellite compound 33 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the River Soar main compound 34 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Redhill main compound 35 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA05 Table 4: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Long Eaton main compound 37 Table 5: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Long Eaton and East Midlands Hub station main compound 39 Table 6: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the B5010 Derby Road satellite compound 41 Table 7: Consideration of local alternatives for an auto-transformer feeder station in the Ratcliffe- on-Soar to Long Eaton area 48 Table 8: Consideration of local alternatives for route of the Proposed Scheme under the A52 Brian Clough Way in Sandiacre 52 Table 9: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 57 Table 10: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 60 Table 11: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 61 Table 12: Summary of characteristics of holdings 74 Table 13: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 78 Table 14: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 79 Table 15: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Ratcliffe-on-Soar to Long Eaton area 108 Table 16: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 120 Table 17: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 124 Table 18: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 155 Table 19: Current and historic landfill sites located in the study area 161 Table 20: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located within the study area 162 Table 21: Current and historical industrial and commercial sites located in the study area 162 Table 22: Summary of sensitive receptors 167 Table 23: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 170 Table 24: Summary of construction CSM effects 173 Table 25: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 174 Table 26: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 177 Table 27: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 185 Table 28: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 193 Table 29: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 196 Table 30: Operational phase significant landscape effects 203 Table 31: Operation phase significant visual effects 205 Table 32: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 218 Table 33: Significance of effects on resources 219 Table 34: Surface water body receptors 249 Table 35: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 251 Table 36: River flood risk sources and receptors 256 Table 37: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 257 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA05 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).