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 | LA07 LA07: Hucknall to Selston High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H18 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 LA07: Hucknall to Selston H18 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: LA07 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 23 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 46 2.5 Route section alternatives 47 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 56 3.1 Introduction 56 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 56 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 57 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 58 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 63 4.1 Introduction 63 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 63 4.3 Environmental baseline 64 4.4 Effects arising during construction 70 4.5 Effects arising from operation 78 5 Air quality 80 5.1 Introduction 80 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 80 5.3 Environmental baseline 81 5.4 Effects arising during construction 82 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA07 5.5 Effects arising from operation 84 6 Community 86 6.1 Introduction 86 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 86 6.3 Environmental baseline 87 6.4 Effects arising during construction 89 6.5 Effects arising from operation 92 7 Ecology and biodiversity 94 7.1 Introduction 94 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 94 7.3 Environmental baseline 94 7.4 Effects arising during construction 104 7.5 Effects arising during operation 118 8 Health 120 8.1 Introduction 120 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 120 8.3 Environmental baseline 121 8.4 Effects arising during construction 123 8.5 Effects arising from operation 129 9 Historic environment 131 9.1 Introduction 131 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 131 9.3 Environmental baseline 133 9.4 Effects arising during construction 136 9.5 Effects arising from operation 138 10 Land quality 140 10.1 Introduction 140 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 140 10.3 Environmental baseline 141 10.4 Effects arising during construction 152 10.5 Effects arising from operation 161 11 Landscape and visual 162 11.1 Introduction 162 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 162 11.3 Environmental baseline 164 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 174 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 183 12 Socio-economics 195 12.1 Introduction 195 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 195 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA07 12.3 Environmental baseline 195 12.4 Effects arising during construction 198 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 211 14.1 Introduction 211 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 211 14.3 Environmental baseline 211 14.4 Effects arising during construction 214 14.5 Effects arising from operation 220 15 Water resources and flood risk 224 15.1 Introduction 224 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 224 15.3 Environmental baseline 225 15.4 Effects arising during construction 235 15.5 Effects arising from operation 244 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: Location of construction compounds in the Hucknall to Selston area 27 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 43 Figure 8: Business sector composition in Ashfield District Council administrative area and the East Midlands region 196 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the Ashfield District Council administrative area and the East Midlands region. 197 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the B6009 Long Lane satellite compound 32 Table 2: Demolitions to be managed from the A608 Mansfield Road main compound 36 Table 3: Demolitions to be managed from the Salmon Lane satellite compound 37 Table 4: Demolitions to be managed from the Erewash and Mineral Railway satellite compound 39 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA07 Table 5: Consideration of local alternatives for route of the Proposed Scheme through Audrey Wood 48 Table 6: Consideration of local alternatives for route of the Proposed Scheme through Erewash River and Mineral Railway 53 Table 7: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 56 Table 8: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 59 Table 9: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 59 Table 10: Summary of characteristics of holdings 70 Table 11: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 74 Table 12: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 76 Table 13: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Hucknall to Selston area 102 Table 14: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 115 Table 15: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 119 Table 16: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 142 Table 17: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 147 Table 18: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located within the study area 147 Table 19: Current and historical industrial sites located within the study area 148 Table 20: Summary of sensitive receptors 152 Table 21: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 155 Table 22: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 158 Table 23: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 160 Table 24: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 166 Table 25: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 176 Table 26: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 178 Table 27: Operational phase significant landscape effects 184 Table 28: Operation phase significant visual effects 188 Table 29: Surface water body receptors 226 Table 30: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 228 Table 31: River flood risk sources and receptors 233 Table 32: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 234 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA07 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.