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 | LA01 LA01: Lea Marston to Tamworth High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H12 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 LA01: Lea Marston to Tamworth H12 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: LA01 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 12 2.3 Construction of the Proposed Scheme 23 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 41 2.5 Route section alternatives 42 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 46 3.1 Introduction 46 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 46 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 47 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 48 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 54 4.1 Introduction 54 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 54 4.3 Environmental baseline 55 4.4 Effects arising during construction 62 4.5 Effects arising from operation 68 5 Air quality 70 5.1 Introduction 70 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 70 5.3 Environmental baseline 71 5.4 Effects arising during construction 72 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA01 5.5 Effects arising from operation 74 6 Community 76 6.1 Introduction 76 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 76 6.3 Environmental baseline 77 6.4 Effects arising during construction 79 6.5 Effects arising from operation 82 7 Ecology and biodiversity 84 7.1 Introduction 84 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 84 7.3 Environmental baseline 84 7.4 Effects arising during construction 93 7.5 Effects arising during operation 105 8 Health 107 8.1 Introduction 107 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 107 8.3 Environmental baseline 108 8.4 Effects arising during construction 110 8.5 Effects arising from operation 117 9 Historic environment 118 9.1 Introduction 118 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 118 9.3 Environmental baseline 120 9.4 Effects arising during construction 123 9.5 Effects arising from operation 126 10 Land quality 128 10.1 Introduction 128 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 128 10.3 Environmental baseline 129 10.4 Effects arising during construction 142 10.5 Effects arising from operation 152 11 Landscape and visual 154 11.1 Introduction 154 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 154 11.3 Environmental baseline 156 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 164 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 173 12 Socio-economics 182 12.1 Introduction 182 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 182 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA01 12.3 Environmental baseline 182 12.4 Effects arising during construction 185 12.5 Effects arising from operation 189 13 Sound, noise and vibration 191 13.1 Introduction 191 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 192 13.3 Environmental baseline 192 13.4 Effects arising during construction 193 13.5 Effects arising from operation 196 14 Traffic and transport 201 14.1 Introduction 201 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 201 14.3 Environmental baseline 201 14.4 Effects arising during construction 204 14.5 Effects arising from operation 209 15 Water resources and flood risk 213 15.1 Introduction 213 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 213 15.3 Environmental baseline 214 15.4 Effects arising during construction 225 15.5 Effects arising from operation 234 16 References 236 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 Lea Marston to Tamworth area 28 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 30 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 31 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 39 Figure 8: Business sector composition in 183 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the NWBC area and the West Midlands 184 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA01 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Kingsbury main compound 32 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the M42 junction 10 main compound 34 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Stoneydelph satellite compound 37 Table 4: Consideration of local alternatives for an auto-transformer feeder station in the Lea Marston to Tamworth area 43 Table 5: Consideration of local alternatives for an auto-transformer feeder station in the Lea Marston to Tamworth area – April 2018 44 Table 6: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 46 Table 7: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 49 Table 8: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 49 Table 9: Summary of characteristics of holdings 62 Table 10: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 66 Table 11: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 67 Table 12: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Lea Marston to Tamworth area 91 Table 13: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 103 Table 14: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 106 Table 15: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 130 Table 16: Current and historical landfill sites located within the study area 136 Table 17: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located within the study area 137 Table 18: Current and historical industrial sites located within the study area 137 Table 19: Summary of sensitive receptors 141 Table 20: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 144 Table 21: Summary of construction CSM effects 147 Table 22: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 148 Table 23: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 151 Table 24: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 158 Table 25: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 165 Table 26: Construction phase significant visual effects 167 Table 27: Operational phase significant landscape effects 174 Table 28: Operational phase significant visual effects 176 Table 29: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 187 Table 30: Significance of effects on resources 187 Table 31: Surface water body receptors 215 Table 32: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 217 Table 33: River flood risk sources and receptors 223 Table 34: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 223 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA01 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.