On the evening of Monday 17th July, the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling introduced the HS2 Phase 2a (West Midlands – Crewe) High Speed Rail Bill and confirmed much of the route of Phase 2b (West Midlands – Leeds and Manchester). This came in the context of the widely publicised awarding of the Phase 1 main…
This week we submitted our response to the High Speed 2 Phase 2b Route Refinement Consultation 2016. This consultation sought responses on seven route refinements that HS2 Ltd have put forward following further design work since the initial Phase 2 route consultation in 2013. We have concerns about the changes to the route and supporting…
The Royal Assent of the HS2 Phase 1 Act marks the creation of the first of three pieces of legislation that will allow the Government to build HS2. The hybrid Bill process used to deliver this legislation has the potential to confer greater powers on the Government’s developer, in this case HS2 Ltd, and therefore…
On 7 July, Chairman of HS2 Ltd Sir David Higgins published Sheffield and South Yorkshire Report 2016 which recommended changes to the route of HS2 serving Sheffield. These are the first recommendations to change the route of HS2 Phase 2B since the proposed line of route from the West Midlands to Manchester and Leeds consultation which…
The HS2 Ecology Technical Group has today released a report assessing and reviewing the HS2 Ltd approach to the natural environment and made recommendations for the subsequent phases of the project. The HS2 Ecology Technical Group, of which the National Trust is a member, believes that HS2 Ltd must improve their approach to ecology and be…
Responding to the launch of the HS2 Design Panel, Ben Middlemiss, Senior HS2 Project and Stakeholder Manager at the National Trust, said: “We are pleased that the HS2 Design Panel has been appointed, and that the members have a broad range of expertise fitting with the magnitude and breadth of the task before them. With…
Today the National Trust presented to the House of Commons High Speed Two Select Committee, their support for a fully bored Chilterns Tunnel in order to protect the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Over the course of two weeks numerous parties are petitioning the Select Committee regarding the Chiltern tunnel case. Representations have already…
