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 | LA09 LA09: Stonebroom to Clay Cross High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H20 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 LA09: Stonebroom to Clay Cross H20 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: LA09 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 18 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 34 2.5 Route section alternatives 35 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 36 3.1 Introduction 36 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2a engagement and consultation 36 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 37 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 38 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 43 4.1 Introduction 43 4.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 43 4.3 Environmental baseline 44 4.4 Effects arising during construction 50 4.5 Effects arising from operation 59 5 Air quality 60 5.1 Introduction 60 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 60 5.3 Environmental baseline 61 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA09 5.4 Effects arising during construction 62 5.5 Effects arising from operation 64 6 Community 66 6.1 Introduction 66 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 66 6.3 Environmental baseline 67 6.4 Effects arising during construction 69 6.5 Effects arising from operation 72 7 Ecology and biodiversity 74 7.1 Introduction 74 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 74 7.3 Environmental baseline 74 7.4 Effects arising during construction 79 7.5 Effects arising during operation 88 8 Health 90 8.1 Introduction 90 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 90 8.3 Environmental baseline 92 8.4 Effects arising during construction 93 8.5 Effects arising from operation 99 9 Historic environment 100 9.1 Introduction 100 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 100 9.3 Environmental baseline 102 9.4 Effects arising during construction 105 9.5 Effects arising from operation 106 10 Land quality 108 10.1 Introduction 108 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 108 10.3 Environmental baseline 109 10.4 Effects arising during construction 119 10.5 Effects arising from operation 127 11 Landscape and visual 128 11.1 Introduction 128 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 128 11.3 Environmental baseline 130 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 134 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 140 12 Socio-economics 145 12.1 Introduction 145 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA09 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 145 12.3 Environmental baseline 145 12.4 Effects arising during construction 148 12.5 Effects arising from operation 151 13 Sound, noise and vibration 152 13.1 Introduction 152 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 153 13.3 Environmental baseline 153 13.4 Effects arising during construction 154 13.5 Effects arising from operation 157 14 Traffic and transport 160 14.1 Introduction 160 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 160 14.3 Environmental baseline 160 14.4 Effects arising during construction 163 14.5 Effects arising from operation 169 15 Water resources and flood risk 172 15.1 Introduction 172 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 172 15.3 Environmental baseline 173 15.4 Effects arising during construction 182 15.5 Effects arising from operation 190 16 References 192 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: Key permanent features of route of the Proposed Scheme in the Stonebroom to Clay Cross area 13 Figure 5: Location of construction compounds in the Stonebroom to Clay Cross area 23 Figure 6: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 25 Figure 7: Construction compounds for railway system works 26 Figure 8: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 32 Figure 9 Business sector composition in the BDC and NEDDC areas and the East Midlands region 146 Figure 10 Employment by industrial sector in the Bolsover District Council and North East Derbyshire Council areas and the East Midlands region 147 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA09 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions to be managed from the Stonebroom embankment satellite compound 27 Table 2: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 36 Table 3: Engagement to date with communities 39 Table 4: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 39 Table 5: Summary of characteristics of holdings 49 Table 6: Summary of temporary effects on holdings from construction 54 Table 7: Summary of permanent effects on holdings from construction 56 Table 8: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Stonebroom to Clay Cross area 78 Table 9: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 86 Table 10: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 89 Table 11: Summary of the geology underlying the Stonebroom to Clay Cross area 110 Table 12: Current and historical landfill sites located in the study area 114 Table 13: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located in the study area 114 Table 14: Current and historical industrial sites located in the study area 115 Table 15: Summary of sensitive receptors 118 Table 16: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 121 Table 17: Summary of construction CSM effects 123 Table 18: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 126 Table 19: Summary of Significantly Affected LCAs 132 Table 20: Summary description and assessment of effects on LCAs 136 Table 21: Construction phase potentially significant visual effects 137 Table 22: Operation phase significant landscape effects 141 Table 23: Operation phase significant visual effects 142 Table 24: Surface water body receptors 174 Table 25: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 177 Table 26: River flood risk sources and receptors 180 Table 27: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 181 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA09 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).