1 Local Area Engagement Plan Staffordshire Phase One 2019 1 About this plan How we will engage We’re committed to being a good neighbour and we‘ll ensure that you can find out about our planned works and activities in your area easily. Equally, we want you Our Community Engagement Strategy outlines all the to have the opportunity to give us your comments ways that we’ll engage with people and communities and tell us your concerns. that are affected along the route. We’ve written this We will engage with you by: HS2 Ltd Local Area Engagement Plan: Staffordshire Local Area Engagement Plan to explain how we’ll Informing. We’ll keep you informed through clear, High Speed Two (HS2) Limited has been tasked by the Department for deliver our Strategy in your area. Staffordshire is timely and tailored communication about issues that Transport (DfT) with managing the delivery of a new national high speed rail affected by both Phase One and Phase 2a of HS2. affect you. This includes: network. It is a non-departmental public body wholly owned by the DfT. Phase One runs from London to the West Midlands, with initial work underway at sites along the route. • engagement events in your area; Phase 2a is the section of the new railway between • regular newsletters; Fradley in Staffordshire and Crewe. A hybrid Bill sending you information sheets about our planned seeking the powers to build and operate Phase 2a is • currently being considered by Parliament. works before they start; and • making sure we keep up-to-date information on our High Speed Two (HS2) Limited This Local Area Engagement Plan covers works local community websites, called Commonplace. Two Snowhill associated with Phase One of the railway only. Snow Hill Queensway The plan sets out how we‘ll engage with communities Involving. We’ll create opportunities for you to Birmingham B4 6GA in Staffordshire to ensure that we meet our get involved throughout the design and delivery of commitments and continue to be a good neighbour. Telephone: 08081 434 434 the Project. This includes: This is particularly important in 2019 as we begin our General email enquiries: [email protected] main construction work. • workshops and discussions on the design of key design elements along the route (such as stations, Website: www.hs2.org.uk This plan: vent shafts, viaducts and hoardings); • introduces you to your local Community • interactive archaeology and ecology programmes; Engagement team and partners working on • meetings and events; and our behalf; • local community investment programmes. • provides maps showing where our key works are in your area; Responding. We’ll provide free and accessible ways informs you about the different ways you can • for you to contact us to answer your questions about contact us; and the Project and help with any problems that may arise explains how we’ll measure how well we’re doing from our works. This includes: • against our 10 Community Commitments. • our Helpdesk team, who are available all day, High Speed Two (HS2) Limited has actively considered the needs of blind and every day via Freephone 08081 434 434, Minicom partially sighted people in accessing this document. The text will be made 08081 456 472 or email [email protected]; available in full on the HS2 website. The text may be freely downloaded and • making sure that your local Engagement Manager translated by individuals or organisations for conversion into other accessible is available in your area at least once a week; and formats. If you have other needs in this regard please contact High Speed Two • replying promptly to information requests. (HS2) Limited. Keeping you informed We are committed to keeping you informed about work on HS2. This includes ensuring Contact us you know what to expect and when to expect it, as well as how we can help. If you have any questions about this document, please get in touch. Residents’ Charter and Commissioner The Residents’ Charter is our promise to 24/7 freephone 08081 434 434 communicate as clearly as we possibly can with Minicom 08081 456 472 people who live along or near the HS2 route. www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2- Email [email protected] residents-charter Write to We also have an independent Residents’ Commissioner whose job is to make sure we keep FREEPOST to the promises we make in the Charter and to HS2 Community Engagement keep it under constant review. Find reports at: Website www.hs2.org.uk www.gov.uk/government/collections/hs2-ltd- residents-commissioner You can contact the Commissioner at: [email protected] To keep up to date with what i Construction Commissioner happening in your area, visit: The Construction Commissioner’s role is to mediate www.hs2.commonplace.is and monitor the way in which HS2 Ltd manages and responds to construction complaints. You can contact the Construction Commissioner at: [email protected] Please contact us if you’d like a free copy of this document in large print, Braille, audio or Property and compensation easy read. You can also contact us for help the line of route by visiting: HS2 Ltd is committed to protecting personal information. www.gov.uk/government/collections/hs2-property If you wish to know more about how we use your personal information please see our Privacy Notice (https://www. 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Printed in Great Britain on paper containing at least 75% recycled fibre. 2 HS2 Ltd Local Area Engagement Plan: Staffordshire HS2 Ltd Local Area Engagement Plan: Staffordshire 3 Who we are Our year ahead It’s important for everyone working on HS2 to Enabling works contractor Late 2019 and beyond, we’ll start the main civil Our utility partners will move some of the existing understand the impact that their decisions and engineering work on Phase One of the railway, so water, electricity and gas supplies to allow for our actions have. This includes all the companies and the impact and frequency of our works is likely to construction activity. This is to make sure that people working on our behalf. Your local Community increase. We’re committed to minimising these supplies to local areas are not affected while we Engagement team is here to speak on your behalf impacts and measuring the effectiveness of our build HS2. and to act as your voice within HS2 Ltd and our engagement to ensure that we’re doing the best We’ll also be carrying out archaeological digs across supply chain. Your local team is made up of staff from we possibly can. Matt Price and Jane Smith Staffordshire. These will start from the end of May HS2 Ltd and our partners, all working together to Community Liason Officers We measure and report on how we’re being a and finish in autumn 2019. We’ll share any interesting listen and respond to local communities. good neighbour through our regular progress findings with you when we can. You can see their details below: Laing O’Rourke and Murphy (LM) are the enabling works contractor for this area of the route. Their job is reports. These are published every six months We’ve already started preparations for the Your HS2 Ltd contacts to prepare the land ready for the construction of the and show how we’re performing against our 10 construction of a haul road near Streethay. railway. They will be undertaking surveys, demolition Community Commitments. Once complete, this temporary road will allow our Chris Humphreys construction traffic to access HS2 work sites directly works, utility diversions, archaeological works and You can read our 10 Community Commitments on Community Engagement Manager from the A38. highways improvements. They have a number of page 21 of our Community Engagement Strategy. different companies working for them to carry out Chris will be your first point You can read our latest progress report and our During the spring and summer, we’ll continue with these works. Your Community Engagement Officers for of contact and is responsible Community Engagement Strategy online at our ecological mitigation works, which will include the Staffordshire area are Matt Price and Jane Smith. for engagement in the hs2.org.uk/in-your-area. For hard copies contact tree planting and the creation of new wildlife habitats, Staffordshire area. our Helpdesk team or attend one of our larger including a bat house in Hints. Main works contractor engagement events, where we have hard copies Finally, we’ll be starting to build some of the main Jonathan Lord to hand. works compounds along this part of the route. Senior Engagement Manager Our key works and activities planned for your area We’ll use these compounds when we start major Jonathan oversees engagement Tahir Ahmed over the next year are outlined in the following construction work in future.