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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 | MA06 MA06: Hulseheath to Manchester Airport High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H9 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 MA06: Hulseheath to Manchester Airport H9 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: MA06 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 52 2.5 Route section alternatives 53 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 54 3.1 Introduction 54 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 54 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 55 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 56 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 61 4.1 Introduction 61 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 61 4.3 Environmental baseline 62 4.4 Effects arising during construction 70 4.5 Effects arising from operation 79 5 Air quality 81 5.1 Introduction 81 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 81 5.3 Environmental baseline 82 5.4 Effects arising during construction 83 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA06 5.5 Effects arising from operation 86 6 Community 88 6.1 Introduction 88 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 88 6.3 Environmental baseline 89 6.4 Effects arising during construction 91 6.5 Effects arising from operation 94 7 Ecology and biodiversity 96 7.1 Introduction 96 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 96 7.3 Environmental baseline 97 7.4 Effects arising during construction 107 7.5 Effects arising during operation 119 8 Health 121 8.1 Introduction 121 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 121 8.3 Environmental baseline 123 8.4 Effects arising during construction 124 8.5 Effects arising from operation 131 9 Historic environment 133 9.1 Introduction 133 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 133 9.3 Environmental baseline 135 9.4 Effects arising during construction 138 9.5 Effects arising from operation 144 10 Land quality 146 10.1 Introduction 146 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 146 10.3 Environmental baseline 147 10.4 Effects arising during construction 156 10.5 Effects arising from operation 165 11 Landscape and visual 167 11.1 Introduction 167 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 167 11.3 Environmental baseline 169 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 174 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 180 12 Socio-economics 187 12.1 Introduction 187 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 187 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA06 12.3 Environmental baseline 187 12.4 Effects arising during construction 190 12.5 Effects arising from operation 195 13 Sound, noise and vibration 196 13.1 Introduction 196 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 197 13.3 Environmental baseline 197 13.4 Effects arising during construction 198 13.5 Effects arising from operation 201 14 Traffic and transport 206 14.1 Introduction 206 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 206 14.3 Environmental baseline 207 14.4 Effects arising during construction 209 14.5 Effects arising from operation 215 15 Water resources and flood risk 220 15.1 Introduction 220 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 221 15.3 Environmental baseline 221 15.4 Effects arising during construction 230 15.5 Effects arising from operation 243 16 References 245 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 Hulseheath to Manchester Airport area 28 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 31 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 32 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 44 Figure 8: Business sector composition in CEC and TMBC areas and the North West , 188 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in CEC and TMBC areas and the North West , 189 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Manchester Airport station south main satellite compound and transfer node 33 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from Castle Mill Lane satellite compound 36 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA06 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from Blackburn’s Brook satellite compound 37 Table 4: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from Castle Mill Lane satellite compound 40 Table 5: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 54 Table 6: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 56 Table 7: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 57 Table 8: Summary of characteristics of holdings 68 Table 9: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 74 Table 10: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 76 Table 11: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Hulseheath to Manchester Airport area 105 Table 12: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 117 Table 13: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 120 Table 14: Summary of the geology underlying land quality study area 148 Table 15: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located in the study area 152 Table 16: Current and historical industrial sites located in the study area 152 Table 17: Summary of sensitive receptors 156 Table 18: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 159 Table 19: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 161 Table 20: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 164 Table 21: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 171 Table 22: Summary description and judgement of effect for LCAs 175 Table 23: Construction phase significant visual effects 177 Table 24: Operational phase significant landscape effects 181 Table 25: Operational phase significant visual effects 182 Table 26: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 193 Table 27: Significance of effects on resources 193 Table 28: Surface water body receptors 222 Table 29: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 224 Table 30: River flood risk sources and receptors 229 Table 31: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 229 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA06 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. Consultation on the working draft ES is being undertaken to help inform the ongoing design and environmental assessment in advance of producing a statutory formal ES.