Appleby Parva to Ashby-De-La-Zouch

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 | LA03 LA03: Appleby Parva to Ashby-de-la-Zouch High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H14 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 LA03: Appleby Parva to Ashby-de-la-Zouch H14 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: LA03 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 26 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 56 2.5 Route section alternatives 57 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 58 3.1 Introduction 58 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 58 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 59 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 60 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 82 5 Air quality 84 5.1 Introduction 84 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 84 5.3 Environmental baseline 85 5.4 Effects arising during construction 86 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA03 5.5 Effects arising from operation 88 6 Community 90 6.1 Introduction 90 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 90 6.3 Environmental baseline 91 6.4 Effects arising during construction 94 6.5 Effects arising from operation 98 7 Ecology and biodiversity 99 7.1 Introduction 99 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 99 7.3 Environmental baseline 99 7.4 Effects arising during construction 106 7.5 Effects arising during operation 116 8 Health 118 8.1 Introduction 118 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 118 8.3 Environmental baseline 119 8.4 Effects arising during construction 122 8.5 Effects arising from operation 129 9 Historic environment 130 9.1 Introduction 130 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 130 9.3 Environmental baseline 132 9.4 Effects arising during construction 136 9.5 Effects arising from operation 140 10 Land quality 142 10.1 Introduction 142 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 142 10.3 Environmental baseline 143 10.4 Effects arising during construction 155 10.5 Effects arising from operation 164 11 Landscape and visual 165 11.1 Introduction 165 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 165 11.3 Environmental baseline 166 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 176 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 184 12 Socio-economics 194 12.1 Introduction 194 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 194 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA03 12.3 Environmental baseline 194 12.4 Effects arising during construction 197 12.5 Effects arising from operation 201 13 Sound, noise and vibration 202 13.1 Introduction 202 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 203 13.3 Environmental baseline 203 13.4 Effects arising during construction 204 13.5 Effects arising from operation 207 14 Traffic and transport 212 14.1 Introduction 212 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 212 14.3 Environmental baseline 213 14.4 Effects arising during construction 215 14.5 Effects arising from operation 220 15 Water resources and flood risk 225 15.1 Introduction 225 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 225 15.3 Environmental baseline 226 15.4 Effects arising during construction 236 15.5 Effects arising from operation 245 16 References 246 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: Indicative area within which a temporary railhead may be located 12 Figure 5: Location of construction compounds in the Appleby Parva to Ashby-de-la-Zouch area 31 Figure 6: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 33 Figure 7: Construction compounds for railway systems works 36 Figure 8: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 53 Figure 9: Business sector composition in NWLDC area and the East Midlands region 195 Figure 10: Employment by industrial sector in the NWLDC area and the East Midlands region 196 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA03 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Atherstone Road main compound 39 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Appleby Magna south satellite compound 40 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Appleby Magna north satellite compound 41 Table 4: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the River Mease viaduct south and River Mease north satellite compound 42 Table 5: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the New Street overbridge satellite compound 43 Table 6: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the B4116 main compound 44 Table 7: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Junction 13 main compound 49 Table 8: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 58 Table 9: Engagement to date with community stakeholders. 61 Table 10: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils. 62 Table 11: Summary of characteristics of holdings 73 Table 12: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 78 Table 13: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 80 Table 14: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Appleby Parva to Ashby-de-la- Zouch area 103 Table 15: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 115 Table 16: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 117 Table 17: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 144 Table 18: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 149 Table 19: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located within the study area 150 Table 20: Key current and historical industrial sites located within the study area 151 Table 21: Summary of sensitive receptors 155 Table 22: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 158 Table 23: Summary of construction CSM effects 160 Table 24: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 162 Table 25: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 169 Table 26: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 178 Table 27: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 180 Table 28: Operational phase significant landscape effects 185 Table 29: Operation phase significant visual effects 188 Table 30: Resources that would potentially experience significant direct effects 199 Table 31: Significance of effects on resources 199 Table 32: Surface water body receptors 227 Table 33: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 228 Table 34: River flood risk sources and receptors 233 Table 35: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 235 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA03 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.

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