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 | MA07 MA07: Davenport Green to Ardwick High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H10 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 MA07: Davenport Green to Ardwick H10 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: MA07 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 11 2.3 Construction of the Proposed Scheme 15 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 31 2.5 Route section alternatives 32 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 33 3.1 Introduction 33 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 33 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 34 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 35 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 39 4.1 Introduction 39 5 Air quality 40 5.1 Introduction 40 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 40 5.3 Environmental baseline 41 5.4 Effects arising during construction 42 5.5 Effects arising from operation 44 6 Community 46 6.1 Introduction 46 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 46 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA07 6.3 Environmental baseline 47 6.4 Effects arising during construction 49 6.5 Effects arising from operation 52 7 Ecology and biodiversity 54 7.1 Introduction 54 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 54 7.3 Environmental baseline 54 7.4 Effects arising during construction 59 7.5 Effects arising during operation 63 8 Health 64 8.1 Introduction 64 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 64 8.3 Environmental baseline 66 8.4 Effects arising during construction 67 8.5 Effects arising from operation 73 9 Historic environment 74 9.1 Introduction 74 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 74 9.3 Environmental baseline 76 9.4 Effects arising during construction 79 9.5 Effects arising from operation 81 10 Land quality 83 10.1 Introduction 83 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 83 10.3 Environmental baseline 84 10.4 Effects arising during construction 93 10.5 Effects arising from operation 103 11 Landscape and visual 104 11.1 Introduction 104 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 104 11.3 Environmental baseline 105 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 109 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 113 12 Socio-economics 117 12.1 Introduction 117 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 117 12.3 Environmental baseline 117 12.4 Effects arising during construction 120 12.5 Effects arising from operation 124 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA07 13 Sound, noise and vibration 126 13.1 Introduction 126 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 127 13.3 Environmental baseline 127 13.4 Effects arising during construction 128 13.5 Effects arising from operation 133 14 Traffic and transport 137 14.1 Introduction 137 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 137 14.3 Environmental baseline 138 14.4 Effects arising during construction 140 14.5 Effects arising from operation 145 15 Water resources and flood risk 148 15.1 Introduction 148 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 148 15.3 Environmental baseline 149 15.4 Effects arising during construction 158 15.5 Effects arising from operation 167 16 References 168 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 Davenport Green to Ardwick area 19 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 21 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems works 22 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 29 Figure 8: Business sector composition in MCC area and the North West 118 Figure 9: Employment by industrial sector in the MCC area and the North West 119 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions to be managed from the Wilmslow Road vent shaft satellite compound 24 Table 2: Demolitions to be managed from the Manchester tunnel north portal main compound and transfer node 26 Table 3: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 33 Table 4: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 35 Table 5: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 36 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA07 Table 6: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Davenport Green to Ardwick area 57 Table 7: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 62 Table 8: Summary of the geology underlying the Proposed Scheme from Davenport Green to Ardwick 85 Table 9: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located within the study area 90 Table 10: Current and historical industrial sites located within the study area 90 Table 11: Summary of sensitive receptors 93 Table 12: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 96 Table 13: Summary of permanent (post-construction) effects 100 Table 14: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 102 Table 15: Summary of Significantly Affected LCAs 108 Table 16: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 111 Table 17: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 112 Table 18: Operational phase significant landscape effects 114 Table 19: Operation phase potential significant visual effects 115 Table 20: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 122 Table 21: Significance of effects on resources 123 Table 22: Surface water body receptors 150 Table 23: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 151 Table 24: River flood risk sources and receptors 156 Table 25: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 157 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: MA07 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). Collectively, this is referred to in this working draft ES as the ‘Proposed Scheme’. The working draft ES describes the Proposed Scheme and reports its likely significant environmental effects and the measures proposed to mitigate those effects, based on a stage in the ongoing design and environmental assessment.