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 | MA05 MA05: Risley to Bamfurlong High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H8 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 MA05: Risley to Bamfurlong H8 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: MA05 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 26 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 54 2.5 Route section alternatives 55 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 57 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 58 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 59 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 73 4.5 Effects arising from operation 81 5 Air quality 83 5.1 Introduction 83 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 83 5.3 Environmental baseline 84 5.4 Effects arising during construction 85 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA05 5.5 Effects arising from operation 88 6 Community 89 6.1 Introduction 89 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 89 6.3 Environmental baseline 90 6.4 Effects arising during construction 93 6.5 Effects arising from operation 97 7 Ecology and biodiversity 98 7.1 Introduction 98 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 98 7.3 Environmental baseline 98 7.4 Effects arising during construction 107 7.5 Effects arising during operation 117 8 Health 119 8.1 Introduction 119 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 119 8.3 Environmental baseline 120 8.4 Effects arising during construction 122 8.5 Effects arising from operation 129 9 Historic environment 130 9.1 Introduction 130 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 130 9.3 Environmental baseline 132 9.4 Effects arising during construction 135 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 162 11 Landscape and visual 163 11.1 Introduction 163 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 163 11.3 Environmental baseline 164 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 171 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 178 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: MA05 12.3 Environmental baseline 187 12.4 Effects arising during construction 190 12.5 Effects arising from operation 194 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 219 15.1 Introduction 219 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 219 15.3 Environmental baseline 220 15.4 Effects arising during construction 231 15.5 Effects arising from operation 239 16 References 241 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 Risley to Bamfurlong area 30 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 33 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 34 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 47 Figure 8: Business sector composition in WBC and WMBC areas and the North West, 188 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in WBC and WMBC areas and the North West, 189 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the A580 East Lancashire Road main compound 35 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the A574 Warrington Road satellite compound 38 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA05 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the B5027 Wilton Lane satellite compound 40 Table 4: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Slag Lane satellite compound 42 Table 5: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the A573 Wigan Road satellite compound and transfer node 44 Table 6: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 57 Table 7: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 60 Table 8: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 60 Table 9: Summary of characteristics of holdings 71 Table 10: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 77 Table 11: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 79 Table 12: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Risley to Bamfurlong area 105 Table 13: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 116 Table 14: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 118 Table 15: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 142 Table 16: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 147 Table 17: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located in the study area 147 Table 18: Current and historical industrial sites located in the study area 148 Table 19: Summary of sensitive receptors 152 Table 20: Summary of key baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the study area 155 Table 21: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 158 Table 22: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 161 Table 23: Summary of Significantly Affected LCAs 167 Table 24: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 173 Table 25: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 174 Table 26: Operational phase significant landscape effects 179 Table 27: Operation phase significant visual effects 181 Table 28: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 192 Table 29: Significance of effects on resources 193 Table 30: Surface water body receptors 221 Table 31: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 224 Table 32: River flood risk sources and receptors 229 Table 33: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 230 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA05 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.