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HS2 Phase 2B WDES Volume 2 Community Area Reports 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 | MA04 MA04: Broomedge to Glazebrook High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H7 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 MA04: Broomedge to Glazebrook H7 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. High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Two Snowhill Snow Hill Queensway Birmingham B4 6GA Telephone: 08081 434 434 General email enquiries: [email protected] Website: www.hs2.org.uk A report prepared for High Speed Two (HS2) Limited: High Speed Two (HS2) Limited has actively considered the needs of blind and partially sighted people in accessing this document. The text will be made available in full on the HS2 website. The text may be freely downloaded and translated by individuals or organisations for conversion into other accessible formats. If you have other needs in this regard please contact High Speed Two (HS2) Limited. © High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, 2018, except where otherwise stated. Copyright in the typographical arrangement rests with High Speed Two (HS2) Limited. This information is licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0. 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High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA04 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 20 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 41 2.5 Route section alternatives 42 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 43 3.1 Introduction 43 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 43 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 44 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 45 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 49 4.1 Introduction 49 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 49 4.3 Environmental baseline 50 4.4 Effects arising during construction 57 4.5 Effects arising from operation 65 5 Air quality 67 5.1 Introduction 67 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 67 5.3 Environmental baseline 68 5.4 Effects arising during construction 69 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA04 5.5 Effects arising from operation 72 6 Community 73 6.1 Introduction 73 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 73 6.3 Environmental baseline 74 6.4 Effects arising during construction 76 6.5 Effects arising from operation 80 7 Ecology and biodiversity 82 7.1 Introduction 82 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 82 7.3 Environmental baseline 82 7.4 Effects arising during construction 89 7.5 Effects arising during operation 99 8 Health 101 8.1 Introduction 101 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 101 8.3 Environmental baseline 102 8.4 Effects arising during construction 104 8.5 Effects arising from operation 110 9 Historic environment 111 9.1 Introduction 111 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 111 9.3 Environmental baseline 113 9.4 Effects arising during construction 116 9.5 Effects arising from operation 119 10 Land quality 122 10.1 Introduction 122 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 122 10.3 Environmental baseline 123 10.4 Effects arising during construction 132 10.5 Effects arising from operation 139 11 Landscape and visual 141 11.1 Introduction 141 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 141 11.3 Environmental baseline 143 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 149 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 155 12 Socio-economics 163 12.1 Introduction 163 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 163 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA04 12.3 Environmental baseline 163 12.4 Effects arising during construction 166 12.5 Effects arising from operation 169 13 Sound, noise and vibration 171 13.1 Introduction 171 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 172 13.3 Environmental baseline 172 13.4 Effects arising during construction 173 13.5 Effects arising from operation 176 14 Traffic and transport 181 14.1 Introduction 181 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 181 14.3 Environmental baseline 182 14.4 Effects arising during construction 184 14.5 Effects arising from operation 189 15 Water resources and flood risk 192 15.1 Introduction 192 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 192 15.3 Environmental baseline 193 15.4 Effects arising during construction 202 15.5 Effects arising from operation 210 16 References 212 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 Broomedge to Glazebrook area 24 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 27 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 28 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 38 Figure 8: Business sector composition in the WBC and TMBC areas and the North West 164 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the WBC and TMBC areas and the North West 165 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA04 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions to be managed from the Manchester Ship Canal Viaduct North main compound 29 Table 2: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 43 Table 3: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 45 Table 4: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 46 Table 5: Summary of characteristics of holdings 57 Table 6: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 62 Table 7: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 63 Table 8: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Broomedge to Glazebrook area 88 Table 9: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 98 Table 10: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 100 Table 11 : Summary of the geology underlying the underlying the land quality study area 124 Table 12: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 129 Table 13: Current and historical industrial sites located in the study area 129 Table 14: Summary of sensitive receptors 132 Table 15: Summary of baseline CSM for key sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the study area 135 Table 16: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 139 Table 17: Summary of Significantly Affected LCAs 145 Table 18: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 151 Table 19: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 152 Table 20: Operational phase significant landscape effects 156 Table 21: Operational phase significant visual effects 158 Table 22: Resource which would potentially experience significant direct effects 168 Table 23: Significance of effects on resources 168 Table 24: Surface water body receptors 194 Table 25: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 195 Table 26: River flood risk sources and receptors 200 Table 27: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 201 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA04 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. The formal ES will accompany the deposit of the hybrid Bill for Phase 2b of HS2. Phase 2b comprises the section of the proposed HS2 rail network, from Crewe to Manchester (and a connection onto the West Coast Main Line (WCML)) (the western leg), and from the West Midlands to Leeds (and a connection onto, and part electrification of, the Midland Main Line (MML) and a connection onto the East Coast Main Line (ECML)) via the East Midlands and South Yorkshire (the eastern leg).
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