South Kirkby to Sharlston Common

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 | LA14 LA14: South Kirkby to Sharlston Common High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H25 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 LA14: South Kirkby to Sharlston Common H25 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: LA14 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 and status 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 25 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 53 2.5 Route section alternatives 54 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 55 3.1 Introduction 55 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 55 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 56 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 57 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 71 4.5 Effects arising from operation 80 5 Air quality 82 5.1 Introduction 82 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 82 5.3 Environmental baseline 83 5.4 Effects arising during construction 84 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA14 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 92 6.5 Effects arising from operation 95 7 Ecology and biodiversity 97 7.1 Introduction 97 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 97 7.3 Environmental baseline 97 7.4 Effects arising during construction 103 7.5 Effects arising during operation 110 8 Health 112 8.1 Introduction 112 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 112 8.3 Environmental baseline 114 8.4 Effects arising during construction 116 8.5 Effects arising from operation 122 9 Historic environment 124 9.1 Introduction 124 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 124 9.3 Environmental baseline 126 9.4 Effects arising during construction 130 9.5 Effects arising from operation 135 10 Land quality 137 10.1 Introduction 137 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 137 10.3 Environmental baseline 138 10.4 Effects arising during construction 152 10.5 Effects arising from operation 162 11 Landscape and visual 164 11.1 Introduction 164 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 164 11.3 Environmental baseline 166 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 173 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 182 12 Socio-economics 196 12.1 Introduction 196 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 196 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA14 12.3 Environmental baseline 196 12.4 Effects arising during construction 199 12.5 Effects arising from operation 202 13 Sound, noise and vibration 203 13.1 Introduction 203 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 204 13.3 Environmental baseline 204 13.4 Effects arising during construction 205 13.5 Effects arising from operation 209 14 Traffic and transport 214 14.1 Introduction 214 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 214 14.3 Environmental baseline 215 14.4 Effects arising during construction 218 14.5 Effects arising from operation 224 15 Water resources and flood risk 228 15.1 Introduction 228 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 228 15.3 Environmental baseline 229 15.4 Effects arising during construction 240 15.5 Effects arising from operation 247 16 References 249 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 South Kirkby to Sharlston Common area 30 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 33 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems installation works 35 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 48 Figure 8: Business sector composition in the WMDC and BMBC areas and the Yorkshire and the Humber Region 197 Figure 9: Employment by Industrial Sector in the WMDC and BMBC areas and the Yorkshire and the Humber Region 198 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Havercroft cutting satellite compound 41 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Crofton North embankment main compound 43 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA14 Table 3: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 55 Table 4: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 58 Table 5: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 59 Table 6: Summary of characteristics of holdings 70 Table 7: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 75 Table 8: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 78 Table 9: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the South Kirkby to Sharlston Common area 101 Table 10: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 109 Table 11: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 111 Table 12: Summary of the geology underlying the land quality study area 139 Table 13: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 144 Table 14: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located in the study area 145 Table 15: Current and historical industrial sites located in the study area 146 Table 16: Coal Seams present within 50m depth within study area 150 Table 17: Summary of sensitive receptors 151 Table 18: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 155 Table 19: Summary of construction CSM effects 158 Table 20: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 159 Table 21: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 161 Table 22: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 168 Table 23: Construction phase significant landscape effects 174 Table 24: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 176 Table 25: Operation phase significant landscape effects 183 Table 26: Operation phase significant visual effects 186 Table 27: Surface water body receptors 230 Table 28: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 233 Table 29: River flood risk sources and receptors 237 Table 30: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 237 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA14 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.

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