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In Your Area Whitmore Heath to Madeley October 2018 | www.hs2.org.uk In your area Whitmore Heath to Madeley Chorlton Balterley A3 Chesterton High Speed Two (HS2) A531 Halmer nd is the new high speed Betley railway for Britain. A527 Alsagers Bank HS2 Ltd is the company Blakenhall Wrinehill responsible for M Leycett Silverdale developing the railway. Checkley A525 NEWCASTE-NER-ME A51 In November 2015 the Madeley Keele Madeley Heath Government confirmed A3 the route for Phase 2a of A53 Clayton HS2: West Midlands to HS2 Phase 2a Onneley Crewe. HS2 Ltd is currently A525 seeking Parliamentary Woore A5182 SHROPSHIRE Madeley approval to build and Park Whitmore Pipe Gate Aston Hanchurch run Phase 2a. Dorrington Baldwin’s Gate Knighton A53 Knowl Wall Blackbrook M Beech Maer Chapel Charlton Mucklestone Ashley Introduction This information has been produced by HS2 Ltd to update you on the route from Whitmore Heath to Madeley. It includes: • a summary of the proposed route in the area; • changes to the scheme which will be considered by Parliament early next year; • a map of the route in the area; • some of the benefits that HS2 will bring to the region; • the Phase 2a timeline; • how to find out more about the project; and • how to get in touch with us. The route of Phase 2a from Whitmore Heath The details of AP2 are still being developed, and there will be to Madeley other changes outside the Additional Provision process that we’ll publish for consultation at the time of the AP2 deposit. The Whitmore Heath to Madeley area covers approximately The changes in the Whitmore Heath to Madeley area will include: 9.1km the Phase 2a route, which passes through the parishes of Whitmore and Madeley, within the Newcastle-under-Lyme • the extension of the Whitmore Heath tunnel, moving the Borough Council and Staffordshire County Council areas. southern portal further south beyond the A53 Newcastle The boundary between Swynnerton and Whitmore parishes Road and removing the need to realign the road or construct forms the southern boundary of this area. The boundary the A53 overbridge; between Madeley and Checkley cum Wrinehill parishes forms • the provision of power supplies for tunnel boring machines the northern boundary. and for permanent railway infrastructure at Whitmore and Madeley; The area is predominantly rural in character, with agriculture “A fully integrated HS2 National College for being the main land use. This is interspersed with woodland, and mainline rail network • the provision of additional flood mitigation for High Speed Rail including ancient woodland, small villages and a scattering of the River Lea Viaduct; will make Staffordshire The newly opened National isolated dwellings and farmsteads. Much of the area even better connected, • signalisation of the A53 Newcastle Road/A51 College for High Speed encompasses gently undulating lowland and settled river valley offering benefits for local staggered crossroads; Rail will play a key role in landscapes, with occasional lowland bog and floodplain pasture commuters, businesses generating the workforce at lower levels. • minor highway changes to improve junction visibility; and our wider economy. ” of the future, designing • the provision of a number of local placement sites for At the southern end of this area, the route will pass within 1km Mark Winnington, and building the UK’s new excavated material that would otherwise be exported by road; of the settlements of Baldwin’s Gate and Madeley Park Wood, Economic Growth high speed rail network which lie to the west, and Whitmore and Madeley, which lie to Leader, Staffordshire • additional land required temporarily for the purposes of and future infrastructure the east. The route will pass under Whitmore Heath in tunnel County Council construction and for utility and rail systems compounds; and projects, including HS2. and through Whitmore Wood. It will then enter the valley of the With state-of-the-art • a series of amendments to utilities works in the area, River Lea, through which the West Coast Main Line, the Madeley facilities in Birmingham including revised designs for gas and electricity diversions Chord and the Stoke to Market Drayton Railway (also known as and Doncaster, the college and altered connections for water supplies, sewers and the Silverdale line) pass. There are a number of designated offers courses and telecommunications cables. heritage assets including the Grade II listed building Hey House apprenticeships in all and the scheduled monument of Old Madeley Manor in the area. elements of the rail The Additional Provision process industry whether you’re The route will continue towards the village of Madeley, passing Once AP2 is submitted to Parliament, people who are specially leaving school, wanting to Bar Hill, the Lea Head moated site scheduled monument, and and directly affected by the proposals included in it will be up-skill, or take a new a number of listed buildings, including the farmstead of Aston able to petition against them. This means they can submit an career direction. HS2 alone Cliff and Lea Head Manor. It will also pass through part of objection, known as a petition, setting out their concerns and is set to create 35,000 Barhill Wood. what they would like done about them. They – or a representative new jobs, including 2,000 – can then present the petition to a special committee of MPs apprenticeships, and Additional Provision 2 (AP2) (the Select Committee). The petitioning period will start after careers in this industry In July 2017 the Government submitted a hybrid Bill to AP2 is deposited in Parliament. are set to become Parliament. The Bill sets out the proposals for Phase 2a of HS2. increasingly sought after. People will also have the opportunity to respond to a public Since then we have developed the design, particularly in respect consultation on the environmental impacts of the proposals. If you would like further of highways and utilities, and will need to make some changes information, or to apply, to the Bill to reflect these. Changes are also proposed in response It will be for the Select Committee to decide whether the visit the college website to requests made by affected parties and the select committee proposals in AP2 should be adopted. of MPs hearing petitions against the Bill. www.nchsr.ac.uk You can call the college on We have already sought to make changes to the Bill through or email on an Additional Provision, which we submitted in March 2018. 0330 120 0375 We are now seeking to make further changes through a second [email protected] Additional Provision (AP2), which we expect to submit later this year or early next year. AP2 will not change the route of HS2. This map shows the route of HS2 through the community area. However, it does not include emerging design details. To see more detailed maps, please visit www.gov.uk/government/ collections/high-speed-rail-west- midlands-to-crewe-bill HS2 Ltd accept no responsibility for any circumstances, which arise from Legend LEEDS the reproduction of this map after alteration, amendment MANCHESTER or abbreviation or if it issued in part or issued incomplete in any way. Phase 2a hybrid Bill alignment July 2017 Community Area Boundary Scale at A3: 1:40,000 © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 OS 100049190 Bored Tunnel High Speed Two Derived from (...cite the scale of the BGS data used...) scale BGS Digital Data Phase 2a under licence 2011/111 B P British Geological Survey. © NE RC. Cutting Community Area Map 0 1 Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and database right. Embankment BIRMINGHAM Whitmore Heath and Madeley Registered in England. Registration number 06791686. © Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of Land Registry Registered office: 2 Snowhill, Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA. Kilom etres under delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO. Cut And Cover Tunnel This material was last updated on [date] and may not be copied, distributed, sold Tunnel Portal or published without the formal permission of Land Registry and Ordnance Survey. Only an official copy of a title plan or register obtained from the Land Registry may Viaduct Published HS2-HS2-GI-MAP-A000-000003 11/09/18 be used for legal or other official purposes. © Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. LONDON Doc Number: Date: What is HS2? The Select Committee published reports of its findings and The Phase 2a Timeline HS2 is the largest infrastructure project in Europe and will be recommendations on 24 May and 23 July this year. The next the most advanced railway ever built in the UK. It is a catalyst stage includes updating the proposals for the new railway, 2013 – Initial route for growth – revitalising the country, creating new opportunities following further design work. The final step will be formal investigations approval by the Queen to make the Bill into an Act of Parliament for jobs and skills, regenerating towns and cities, and bringing We undertook formal – a process known as Royal Assent – which we expect to achieve the nation closer together. It will increase capacity on our consultations to in late 2019. You can find more information about plans for railways and improve connectivity between eight of Britain’s understand your views Phase 2a of the railway at www.gov.uk/government/ ten biggest cities. It will run between London and Birmingham and looked at how the collections/high-speed-rail-west-midlandsto-crewe-bill (Phase One) from 2026, extend to Crewe (Phase 2a) by 2027 environment might be and then link to Manchester, Leeds and further north from affected by our plans. 2033 (Phase 2b). Once completed, HS2 services will travel to Some of the benefits of HS2 over 25 stations and serve 30 million people across Britain. Information Papers • It improves journey times between London, Manchester 2015 – Route confirmed HS2 Ltd has published a and the North West, which show strong demand for long We finalised the Why do we need HS2? set of Information Papers distance travel.
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