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 | LA18 LA18: Leeds Station High Speed Two (HS2) Limited Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham B4 6GA Freephone: 08081 434 434 Minicom: 08081 456 472 Email: [email protected] H29 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 LA18: Leeds Station H29 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: LA18 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 11 2.3 Construction of the Proposed Scheme 16 2.4 Operation of the Proposed Scheme 35 2.5 Route section alternatives 36 3 Stakeholder engagement and consultation 37 3.1 Introduction 37 3.2 Key stages of Phase 2b engagement and consultation 37 3.3 Informing the Proposed Scheme 38 3.4 Engagement and consultation with stakeholder groups 39 4 Agriculture, forestry and soils 44 5 Air quality 45 5.1 Introduction 45 5.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 45 5.3 Environmental baseline 46 5.4 Effects arising during construction 47 5.5 Effects arising from operation 49 6 Community 51 6.1 Introduction 51 6.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 51 6.3 Environmental baseline 52 i High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA18 6.4 Effects arising during construction 53 6.5 Effects arising from operation 56 7 Ecology and biodiversity 58 7.1 Introduction 58 7.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 58 7.3 Environmental baseline 58 7.4 Effects arising during construction 62 7.5 Effects arising during operation 67 8 Health 68 8.1 Introduction 68 8.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 68 8.3 Environmental baseline 69 8.4 Effects arising during construction 70 8.5 Effects arising from operation 75 9 Historic environment 76 9.1 Introduction 76 9.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 76 9.3 Environmental baseline 78 9.4 Effects arising during construction 82 9.5 Effects arising from operation 88 10 Land quality 90 10.1 Introduction 90 10.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 90 10.3 Environmental baseline 91 10.4 Effects arising during construction 98 10.5 Effects arising from operation 106 11 Landscape and visual 107 11.1 Introduction 107 11.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 107 11.3 Environmental baseline 109 11.4 Temporary effects arising during construction 115 11.5 Permanent effects arising from operation 121 12 Socio-economics 128 12.1 Introduction 128 12.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 128 12.3 Environmental baseline 128 12.4 Effects arising during construction 131 12.5 Effects arising from operation 135 13 Sound, noise and vibration 137 13.1 Introduction 137 ii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA18 13.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 138 13.3 Environmental baseline 138 13.4 Effects arising during construction 139 13.5 Effects arising from operation 142 14 Traffic and transport 145 14.1 Introduction 145 14.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 145 14.3 Environmental baseline 146 14.4 Effects arising during construction 149 14.5 Effects arising from operation 155 15 Water resources and flood risk 161 15.1 Introduction 161 15.2 Scope, assumptions and limitations 161 15.3 Environmental baseline 162 15.4 Effects arising during construction 171 15.5 Effects arising from operation 178 16 References 180 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 Leeds Station area 21 Figure 5: Construction compounds for civil engineering works 23 Figure 6: Construction compounds for railway systems installation works 24 Figure 7: Indicative construction programme between 2023 and 2033 32 Figure 8: Business sector composition in the LCC area and the Yorkshire and the Humber Region 129 Figure 9: Employment by Industrial Sector in the LCC area and the Yorkshire and the Humber Region 130 iii High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA18 List of tables Table 1: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the HS2 Leeds station main compound 25 Table 2: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Leeds embankment satellite compound 28 Table 3: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the Leeds viaduct satellite compound 28 Table 4: Demolitions required as a result of the works to be managed from the HS2 Leeds station common concourse satellite compound 30 Table 5: Mechanisms and timeline of stakeholder engagement since route announcement 37 Table 6: Engagement to date with community stakeholders 40 Table 7: Engagement to date with local authorities and parish councils 40 Table 8: Species potentially relevant to the assessment within the Leeds Station area 61 Table 9: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during construction 66 Table 10: Residual significant effects on ecological resources/features during operation 67 Table 11: Summary of the superficial and bedrock units underlying the land quality study area 92 Table 12: Current and historical mining, mineral sites and colliery spoil sites located in the study area 94 Table 13: Current and historical industrial sites located within the study area 95 Table 14: Summary of sensitive receptors 98 Table 15: Summary of baseline CSM for sites which may pose a contaminative risk for the Proposed Scheme 101 Table 16: Summary of construction CSM effects. 103 Table 17: Summary of effects for mining and mineral resources 105 Table 18: Summary of significantly affected LCAs 112 Table 19: Summary description and assessment of effect for LCAs 117 Table 20: Construction phase significant visual effects 119 Table 21: Operational phase significant landscape effects 122 Table 22: Operation phase significant visual effects 124 Table 23: Resources which would potentially experience significant direct effects 134 Table 24: Significance of effects on resources 134 Table 25: Surface water body receptors 163 Table 26: Summary of geology and hydrogeology in the study area 164 Table 27: River flood risk sources and receptors 167 Table 28: Surface water flood risk sources and receptors 169 iv High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester and West Midlands to Leeds) Working Draft Environmental Statement Volume 2: LA18 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).