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High Speed Two Phase 2a (West Midlands - Crewe) Equality Impact Assessment Update Report Equality Impact Assessment Update Report High Speed Two (HS2) LimitedLimited Two Snowhill Two Snowhill Snow Hill Queensway BirminghamSnow Hill Queensway B4 6GA Birmingham B4 6GA 08081 434 434 [email protected] 434 434 [email protected] J73 J73 High Speed Two Phase 2a (West Midlands - Crewe) Equality Impact Assessment Update Report Equality Impact Assessment Update Report High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill Snow Hill Queensway Birmingham B4 6GA 08081 434 434 [email protected] J73 February 2019 J73 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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Equality impact assessment update: CA1 Fradley to Colton to CA5 South Cheshire Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 This EQIA update 1 1.3 Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty 3 1.4 Relationship to the Phase 2a Environmental Statements 5 1.5 Further steps to fulfil the Public Sector Equality Duty 5 2 EQIA approach 7 2.1 Introduction 7 2.2 Identifying potential equality effects 7 2.3 Baseline context 7 2.4 Assessment of impacts and effects 8 3 Summary of main changes to the scheme 9 3.1 Introduction 9 3.2 Main changes to the scheme 9 4 Summary of changes to effects 13 5 Assessment of route-wide effects of the revised scheme 17 5.1 Introduction 17 5.2 Potential effects during construction and operation 17 5.3 Commitments and mitigation measures 20 6 Community area 1 (Fradley to Colton) assessment 29 6.1 Introduction 29 6.2 The Four Seasons Nature Study Centre 29 6.3 Trentside Meadows 30 6.4 Rugeley School 31 7 Community area 2 (Colwich to Yarlet) assessment 33 7.1 Introduction 33 7.2 Yarlet School 33 7.3 Ingestre Park Golf Club 33 7.4 Mayfield Children’s Home 34 7.5 Upper Moreton Farm 37 i Equality impact assessment update: CA1 Fradley to Colton to CA5 South Cheshire 8 Community area 3 (Stone and Swynnerton) assessment 39 9 Community area 4 (Whitmore Heath to Madeley) assessment 40 10 Community area 5 (South Cheshire) assessment 41 11 Glossary 42 12 References 46 Appendix A: Literature Review 48 1 Introduction 48 1.1 Purpose of this literature review 48 1.2 Structure of this literature review 48 2 Community infrastructure and open space 49 2.1 Introduction 49 2.2 Children and young people 49 2.3 BAME and religious groups 49 3 Employment and business 50 3.1 Introduction 50 3.2 Young people 50 3.3 Disabled people 51 3.4 BAME groups 51 3.5 Women, pregnant women and mothers of new-born babies 51 4 Traffic, transport and accessibility 52 4.1 Introduction 52 4.2 Children and young people 52 5 Noise, air quality and other environmental effects 53 5.1 Introduction 53 5.2 Disabled people 53 5.3 Older people 53 6 Crime, safety and personal security 54 6.1 Introduction 54 6.2 Disabled people 54 6.3 BAME groups and religious groups 54 6.4 LGBT people 55 7 Social capital 56 7.1 Introduction 56 7.2 Social capital, health inequality and protected characteristic groups 56 Appendix B: Baseline community profile 58 1 Introduction 58 1.1 Purpose of this appendix 58 1.2 Structure of this appendix 58 ii Equality impact assessment update: CA1 Fradley to Colton to CA5 South Cheshire 2 Baseline to inform the EQIA 59 2.1 Desk study 59 2.2 Data sources 59 2.3 Information/data gaps 60 3 Community area 1 – Fradley to Colton 62 List of figures Figure 1: Community areas 3 Figure 2: CA1 with ward (black) and local authority (red) boundaries 63 Figure 3: Overall multiple deprivation, CA1 65 Figure 4: Living environment deprivation, CA1 66 Figure 5: Health and disability deprivation, community area 1 70 Figure 6: Barriers to housing and services deprivation, CA1 74 Figure 7: Employment deprivation, CA1 77 Figure 8: Education, skills and training deprivation, CA1 79 Figure 9: Crime deprivation, CA1 81 List of tables Table 1: List of additional, different or removed equality effects due to design changes or amendments to the original scheme and/or assurances 13 Table 2: CA1 with ward, local authority and LSOA 62 Table 3: CA1 Population density 64 Table 4: CA1 Age composition of resident population 67 Table 5: CA1 Proportion of residents by ethnic group 67 Table 6: CA1 Households that have one or more person with a long term health problem or disability 69 Table 7: CA1 Sex of the resident population 71 Table 8: CA1 Proportion of male and female-headed households 71 Table 9: CA1 Religion of the resident population 72 Table 10: CA1 Housing stock by tenure 73 Table 11: CA1 Proportion of labour force economically active, by gender and age 75 Table 12: CA1 Proportion of labour force employed, by gender and age 75 Table 13: CA1 Working age JSA claimants 76 Table 14: CA1 Resident workforce qualifications 77 Table 15: CA1 Proportion of children living in families in receipt of out-of-work benefits or in receipt of tax credits 78 Table 16: Mental health indicators by clinical commissioning group (CCG) 80 iii Equality impact assessment update: CA1 Fradley to Colton to CA5 South Cheshire 1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.1.1 The High Speed Rail (West Midlands – Crewe) Bill (‘the Bill’) was submitted to Parliament together with the High Speed Two (HS2) Phase 2a (West Midlands – Crewe) Environmental Statement (‘the main ES’) in July 2017. If enacted by Parliament, the Bill will provide the powers to construct, operate and maintain Phase 2a of HS2. This phase of HS2 will provide a high speed railway line from the end of the Phase One route at Fradley, to Crewe. The Bill scheme submitted in July 2017 is referred to throughout this document as ‘the original scheme’. 1.1.2 An Equality Impact Assessment report (the EQIA (2017)) was also published in July 2017, along with an EQIA summary report. The EQIA (2017) described the understanding at that time of the equality effects that were considered likely to arise from construction and operation of the original scheme, and the measures to be applied in future to reduce or offset them. The EQIA (2017) included a commitment by HS2 Ltd to keep the potential effects reported under review and, where appropriate, to conduct further appraisal to inform relevant future decisions. 1.1.3 Since the deposit of the Bill, a number of scheme amendments (i.e. changes that require amendments to the Bill) have been promoted in Parliament through two additional provisions (APs) – 'AP1' in March 2018 and 'AP2' in February 2019. In addition to these amendments, a number of other changes which do not require amendments to the Bill are reported in two Supplementary Environmental Statements (SESs) – 'the SES1' in March 2018 and 'the SES2' in February 2019. 1.2 This EQIA update 1.2.1 This report provides a route-wide update of the EQIA (2017), which covered all potential equality effects arising from the construction and operation of the Phase 2a route, and therefore should be read in conjunction with the EQIA (2017). It takes account of the changes and amendments to the original scheme, as reported in the SES reports and the AP ES reports. The original scheme as altered by the changes and amendments is referred to in this report as the ‘revised scheme’. This term covers the entire Phase 2a route and therefore includes those parts of the original scheme, submitted in July 2017, that have not been changed. 1.2.2 This EQIA update takes account of any further mitigation measures agreed by HS2 Ltd and of the Undertakings and Assurances1 made by the Secretary of State for Transport and published in December 2018. 1.2.3 This EQIA update includes the following potential equality effects: 1 Undertakings and Assurances are forms of Commitments offered during the parliamentary process for the Bill. Assurances are given to petitioners in letters or given in the HS2 information papers. Undertakings may also be made between petitioners and the Secretary of State for Transport.