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Making Meaningful Connections You Said, We Did Making Meaningful Connections You Said, We Did East West Rail Consultation: 31 March – 9 June 2021 Table of Contents 01. Introduction 4 02. Selecting a route 10 03. Environment 14 04. Benefits for transport users 18 05. Supporting economic growth 22 06. Costs 26 07. Route 28 08. Further Information 31 Consultation 2021: You Said We Did East West Railway Company | 3 01. Introduction 01. Introduction 01. The project is being delivered in stages. Trains are already running between Oxford and Bicester, and we aim to have trains running the Introduction full length of the line between Oxford and Cambridge by the end of the decade. About East West Rail Preferred Route Option Announcement East West Rail is a proposed new Event, 2020 rail link, which would connect communities between Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bedford and Cambridge. By making it cheaper and quicker to get around, supporting new homes and communities and by boosting local economies, the new railway line aims to create a range of opportunities for people right across the area and to help spread prosperity for towns and cities outside London. 4 | East West Railway Company Consultation 2021: You Said We Did Consultation 2021: You Said We Did East West Railway Company | 5 01. Introduction 01. Introduction The Three Connection Stages Milton Keynes St Neots South / Central Bedford Tempsford Cambourne Cambridge Winslow Bletchley Oxford Bicester Parkway Village Aylesbury Vale Parkway Key: Proposed East West Rail route Proposed East West Rail station Potential future section of East West Rail Oxford Aylesbury Note: Current and potential stations between Bletchley and Bedford not shown Connection Stages Oxford Bicester Parkway Village Oxford to Bicester (current) Oxford Oxford Bicester Milton Keynes Connection Stage 1: Parkway Village Winslow Central Oxford to Milton Keynes Oxford Bletchley Oxford Bicester Milton Keynes Connection Stage 2: Parkway Village Winslow Central Bedford Oxford to Bedford Oxford Bletchley Oxford Bicester Milton Keynes St Neots South / Connection Stage 3: Parkway Village Winslow Central Bedford Tempsford Oxford to Cambridge Oxford Bletchley Cambourne Cambridge EWR services In order to run the services shown on this map and build the associated infrastructure, we must first go through a detailed planning, consultation and approvals process. To learn more about this process, please refer to the supporting Consultation Document. 6 | East West Railway Company Consultation 2021: You Said We Did Consultation 2021: You Said We Did East West Railway Company | 7 01. Introduction 01. Introduction 1.1. This report The feedback received was particularly helpful in providing us with additional We are committed to engaging early to detail and local knowledge about each ensure local knowledge and experience can of the route options. Your responses also influence decision making throughout the provided us with views on the project in planning and design of the new railway. In general as well as feedback on how trains 2019 we invited people to participate in a approach Cambridge. consultation and to respond to proposals relating to the Bedford to Cambridge section Following consideration of the responses of the line. to the consultation and further work to develop the design of the new railway, we We received feedback from members of identified a Preferred Route Option. You can the public, community leaders and other read more about how consultation feedback stakeholders. This document provides a was considered during the process of summary of the main themes contained in selecting a route corridor in the Route the responses to the 2019 consultation. It Option Report which is available on our also explains how people’s comments have website: www.eastwestrail.co.uk/library/ shaped the latest proposals for the route documents alignment between Bedford and Cambridge which we are consulting on in 2021. During 2020 our team of engineers, designers, environmental scientists and 1.2. Consultation to date other specialists have been working to identify potential options for the best Having identified five broad options alignment for the new railway between for the route between Bedford and Bedford and Cambridge. We are now Cambridge, we held a consultation in seeking your feedback on these proposals 2019 to understand initial views from as well as proposals relating to customer communities and stakeholders. We received experience and other areas of the railway. over 7,000 responses. To access the 2021 consultation materials, please go to our website: We read and considered every response to www.eastwestrail.co.uk the 2019 consultation. All the issues raised, along with our response, are presented in the 2019 Bedford to Cambridge Route Option Consultation Public Feedback Report and its appendices which are available on our website: www.eastwestrail.co.uk/library/ documents Preferred Route Option Announcement Event, 2020 8 | East West Railway Company Consultation 2021: You Said We Did Consultation 2021: You Said We Did East West Railway Company | 9 02. Selecting a route 02. Selecting a route The average rating and order of importance expressed 02. by participants was as follows: Selecting a route Factor Importance Average rating Environmental impacts and opportunities Most important 4.29 2.1 You said: these are the criteria that are important to us Benefits for transport users ↓ 4.28 During the 2019 consultation, we Supporting economic growth ↓ 3.65 asked you to rank the following Cost and overall affordability ↓ 3.23 factors to help us to decide which Supporting delivery of new homes Least important 2.96 route option between Bedford and 2.2 We did: Cambridge should be selected. Following the 2019 consultation we used this ranking as one of the considerations when evaluating the different route options. When we assessed the five route options, option E scored higher than all other We asked: on a scale from one to options on four of the five factors, including the three factors that were most important to you: environmental impacts and opportunities, five, where five is most important benefits for transport users and supporting economic growth. and one is least important, how Bedford station important do you believe each of the following factors should be in deciding on a preferred route? 10 | East West Railway Company Consultation 2021: You Said We Did Consultation 2021: You Said We Did East West Railway Company | 11 02. Selecting a route 02. Selecting a route 2.3 You said: we should serve Bedford town centre and Cambourne Potential EWR Preferred route option area Potential EWR station Existing train line station area During the previous consultation there was general Potential new Network Existing train station Potential new Guided busway Network Rail station Rail station area support for a route in the northern part of our route corridor, where more people live, and where there are other transport projects. Route options via Cambourne Sources: Esri, USGS | Esri UK, HERE, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, Towards Peterborough G Towards Norwich u (Routes B and E) were favoured more than routes via i d A14 e d Waterbeach B Bassingbourn (Routes A, C and D). Route E received the u 0 s 1 w A a Papworth y Bar Hill most support in responses to the consultation for having A1 Everard Histon Milton less of an environmental impact and serving more existing St Neots Sharnbrook communities compared to other routes. Route E was also Cambourne (new) M Cambridge North A428 1 the preferred option amongst most local authorities in the Towards Kettering, 1 Corby Leicester Croxton Caxton Bedford to Cambridge area, including: Huntingdonshire Towards Ipswich Wyboston Cambridge (modified) A6 Council, South Cambridgeshire Council, Cambridge City Abbotsley Bourn St Neots / Great Toft Comberton Dullingham Council and Bedford Borough Council. Gransden Barton Sandy area (new) Cambridge South Ravensden B1040 Roxton (Could form part of EWR) A1198 Clapham 1 Tempsford B1046 1 42 Trumpington A1 2.4. We did A Great Renhold Eversden Great Barford Gamlingay Haslingfield Hauxton Shelford Bedford (modified) Wimpole We selected route option E as our Preferred Route Option. Blunham Harston Great A 13 3 Shelford 0 60 7 A603 Sandy A Route option E would link existing stations in Bedford and Bedford St Johns Potton Orwell Cambridge with proposed new stations for communities in Foxton Wrestlingworth Cambourne and the St Neots/Tempsford area. By taking a Shepreth route via Cambourne we can avoid direct impacts on the Kempston Hardwick Whittlesford Parkway Cotton End most environmentally challenging areas and reduce Wixams A600 Biggleswade Meldreth A421 potential direct impacts on irreplaceable or sensitive 05 Bassingbourn A5 A environmental features. 1 3 Haynes 0 A6 1 Towards A1 Royston Milton Keynes Oxford Detailed analysis of the options also showed that route Towards Luton Airport London Towards Hitchin London Towards Hitchin London Towards Stansted Airport London option E would deliver the best transport user benefits with new links to Thameslink and Midland Main Line at Bedford, the East Coast Main Line at Tempsford/St Neots and the West Anglia Main Line in Cambridge. It would also Preferred route option E make it easier for people living in the Oxford to Cambridge arc to get to towns like Kettering, Leeds, Norwich and Nottingham. We have also considered representations that have been made to us about the merits of approaching Cambridge from the north of the city. More information is provided on the left. 12 | East West Railway Company Consultation 2021: You Said We Did Consultation 2021: You Said We Did East West Railway Company | 13 03. Environment 03. Environment 03. 3.1 You said: 3.2 We did: Environment “We are concerned about specific locations We recognise that development of the railway along the route” will have an impact on the environment. We have considered these impacts very carefully in Concern was expressed by local residents about identifying a number of a proposed route alignment 3.1 You said: 3.2 We did: the impact on the environment in specific areas, options and you can find out more detail about including, among others, Caxton, Bourn, Caldecote, these in the Consultation Document.
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