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In Your Area Stone and Swynnerton October 2018 | www.hs2.org.uk In your area Stone and Swynnerton Clayton A500(T) A52 M A50(T) Longton High Speed Two (HS2) Hanford A5182 is the new high speed Whitmore Trentham Madeley Lightwood A520 railway for Britain. Park Wood A53 HS2 Ltd is the company Meir Heath responsible for A51 Stallington Barlaston developing the railway. Maer Chapel Titterson Chorlton Fulford In November 2015 the Government confirmed Moddershall A51 the route for Phase 2a of Podmore Swynnerton Oulton HS2: West Midlands to Standon Cotwalton Chatcull HS2 Phase 2a Crewe. HS2 Ltd is currently Hilderstone seeking Parliamentary approval to build and Yarnfield Little Stoke Croxton Slindon run Phase 2a. Sugnall A51 Sturbridge Norton Bridge M A3 Bishop’s Pershall Offley Eccleshall Chebsey A5013 Yarlet Marston Salt Wooton A3 Introduction This information has been produced by HS2 Ltd to update you on the route from Stone and Swynnerton. It includes: • a summary of the proposed route in the area; • changes to the scheme which will be considered by Parliament early next year; • a map of the route in the area; • some of the benefits that HS2 will bring; • the Phase 2a timeline; • how to find out more about the project; and • how to get in touch with us. The route of Phase 2a in this area The details of AP2 are still being developed, and there will be The Stone and Swynnerton area accounts for about 13.5 km of other changes outside the Additional Provision process that the Phase 2a route, which passes through the Stone Rural and we’ll publish for consultation at the time of the AP2 deposit. Swynnerton Parish council areas, within the Stafford Borough The changes in the Stone and Swynnerton area will include: Council and Staffordshire County Council areas. The boundary • junction improvements at A34 Yarnfield Lane, Brooms Road between Marston and Stone Rural parishes forms the southern roundabout, the A500/A519 roundabout adjacent to the M6 boundary of this area. The boundary between Swynnerton and junction 15, and the A519 and A5182 Trentham Road. There Whitmore parishes forms the northern boundary. will also be a number of minor highway changes to improve junction visibility; The area is predominantly rural in character, with agriculture being the main land use, interspersed with small villages and a • the provision of a roundabout at the junction of Tittensor scattering of isolated dwellings and farmsteads. The residential Road and the A51 Stone Road; “The HS2 project National College for areas mainly relate to Stone and Walton and within the wider could present significant • the realignment of the B5026 Eccleshall Road; High Speed Rail rural area there are a number of villages and hamlets, including opportunities for Yarnfield, Cold Norton, Norton Bridge and Swynnerton. • a new design for the M6 Meaford viaduct to accommodate The newly opened National businesses in our area future changes to the M6 planned by Highways England; College for High Speed At the southern end of this area, the route will pass approximately and the chambers have Rail will play a key role in • landscape enhancement and earthworks at Stone 1.6km to the west of the village of Aston-by-Stone and already held a procurement generating the workforce Infrastructure Maintenance Base – Rail (IMB-R); approximately 600m north-east of the village of Stableford at event with HS2 to of the future, designing the northern end. The route will then cross the Norton Bridge encourage Staffordshire • a series of amendments to utilities works in the area, and building the UK’s new to Stone Railway to the east of the M6 (between the B5026 businesses to start including revised designs for gas and electricity diversions high speed rail network Eccleshall Road and Yarnfield Lane), before crossing the M6. The thinking about how they and altered connections for water supplies, sewers and and future infrastructure West Coast Main Line (WCML) passes through the northern could be involved.” telecommunications cables; projects, including HS2. extent of the Stone and Swynnerton area, running in a south With state-of-the-art Sara Williams, CEO, Staffs • the provision of temporary water treatment facilities at to north direction on the western side of the route. facilities in Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Swynnerton, Mill Meece and Hanchurch; and Doncaster, the college Additional Provision 2 (AP2) • the relocation of a footpath overbridge and the realignment offers courses and of a footpath and bridleway; In July 2017 the Government submitted a hybrid Bill to apprenticeships in all Parliament. The Bill sets out the proposals for Phase 2a of HS2. • the provision of a number of local placement sites for elements of the rail Since then we have developed the design, particularly in respect excavated material that would otherwise be exported by road; industry whether you’re leaving school, wanting to of highways and utilities, and will need to make some changes • additional land required temporarily for the purposes of up-skill, or take a new to the Bill to reflect these. Changes are also proposed in response construction and for utility and rail systems compounds; and to requests made by affected parties and the select committee career direction. HS2 alone • the provision of field accesses. of MPs hearing petitions against the Bill. is set to create 35,000 new jobs, including 2,000 We have already sought to make changes to the Bill through The Additional Provision process apprenticeships, and an Additional Provision, which we submitted in March 2018. Once AP2 is submitted to Parliament, people who are specially careers in this industry We are now seeking to make further changes through a second and directly affected by the proposals included in it will be are set to become Additional Provision (AP2), which we expect to submit later this able to petition against them. This means they can submit an increasingly sought after. year or early next year. AP2 will not change the route of HS2. objection, known as a petition, setting out their concerns and If you would like further what they would like done about them. They – or a representative information, or to apply, – can then present the petition to a special committee of MPs visit the college website (the Select Committee). The petitioning period will start after www.nchsr.ac.uk AP2 is deposited in Parliament. You can call the college on People will also have the opportunity to respond to a public 0330 120 0375 or email on consultation on the environmental impacts of the proposals. [email protected] It will be for the Select Committee to decide whether the proposals in AP2 should be adopted. This map shows the route of HS2 through the community area. However, it does not include emerging design details. To see more detailed maps, please visit www.gov.uk/government/ collections/high-speed-rail-west- midlands-to-crewe-bill HS2 Ltd accept no responsibility for any circumstances, which arise from Legend LEEDS the reproduction of this map after alteration, amendment MANCHESTER or abbreviation or if it issued in part or issued incomplete in any way. Phase 2a hybrid Bill alignment July 2017 Community Area Boundary Scale at A3: 1:50,000 © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 OS 100049190 Bored Tunnel High Speed Two Derived from (...cite the scale of the BGS data used...) scale BGS Digital Data Phase 2a under licence 2011/111 B P British Geological Survey. © NE RC. Cutting Community Area Map 0 1 2 Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and database right. Embankment BIRMINGHAM Stone and Swynnerton Registered in England. Registration number 06791686. © Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of Land Registry Registered office: 2 Snowhill, Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA. Kilom etres under delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO. Cut And Cover Tunnel This material was last updated on [date] and may not be copied, distributed, sold Tunnel Portal or published without the formal permission of Land Registry and Ordnance Survey. Only an official copy of a title plan or register obtained from the Land Registry may Viaduct Published HS2-HS2-GI-MAP-A000-000003 11/09/18 be used for legal or other official purposes. © Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. LONDON Doc Number: Date: What is HS2? The Select Committee published reports of its findings and The Phase 2a Timeline HS2 is the largest infrastructure project in Europe and will be recommendations on 24 May and 23 July this year. The next the most advanced railway ever built in the UK. It is a catalyst stage includes updating the proposals for the new railway, 2013 – Initial route for growth – revitalising the country, creating new opportunities following further design work. The final step will be formal investigations approval by the Queen to make the Bill into an Act of Parliament for jobs and skills, regenerating towns and cities, and bringing We undertook formal – a process known as Royal Assent – which we expect to achieve the nation closer together. It will increase capacity on our consultations to in late 2019. You can find more information about plans for railways and improve connectivity between eight of Britain’s understand your views Phase 2a of the railway at www.gov.uk/government/ ten biggest cities. It will run between London and Birmingham and looked at how the collections/high-speed-rail-west-midlandsto-crewe-bill (Phase One) from 2026, extend to Crewe (Phase 2a) by 2027 environment might be and then link to Manchester, Leeds and further north from affected by our plans. 2033 (Phase 2b). Once completed, HS2 services will travel to Some of the benefits of HS2 over 25 stations and serve 30 million people across Britain.
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