The following update oin High Speed 2 has been circulated by Bucks County Council:
Legal Challenge
The Supreme Court appeal will be heard on 15/16 October 2013. Five judges will hear the appeal with the majority decision going forward. The two grounds of the challenge are a lack of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and a second EU Directive - the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (EIAD).
Construction routes
HS2 Ltd has now shared their proposals for construction routes. The map is available on the 51m website. This could affect communities who previously may have thought that they were not affected by HS2 (map is bottom of column 2).
Roads update
HS2 Ltd has recently agreed the following will be included in the formal ES;
· Maintain access at Bacombe Lane, Wendover
· A4010 (Risborough Road)
· Maintain access to Perry Hill and West Street, Calvert
· A41 Waddesdon realignment
Petitioning Strategy
Indications from HS2 Ltd lead us to think that the formal Environmental statement (ES) will be published in October/November with the hybrid Bill being deposited in November/December. It is likely that the consultation on the formal ES will take place during December/January 2014. Individuals and organisations who consider this consultation period too short are writing to the Secretary of State (via their MP) to request that the consultation be longer than 8 weeks, to take into account the Christmas period and the fact that the documentation will be so much larger than the draft ES. For hybrid Bill petitioning, most of the Buckinghamshire upper tier authorities have now appointed a Parliamentary Agent to act on their behalf.
We are looking to provide a Guide to Petitioning to help communities and other stakeholders who are directly and specially affected to take forward their own petitions. There is a toolkit for petitioning on private bill on the Parliamentary website (http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/commonspetitioningkit.pdf)
Property and compensation consultation
You will no doubt be aware that this re-consultation was launched on 12 September and runs to 4 December 2013. Schemes that may be introduced are express purchase, sale and rent back of properties that will be demolished, (rural support zone) property bond or voluntary purchase, alternative sale and rent back or long-term hardship scheme. A number of events have been organised by HS2 Ltd.
CPRE visual maps
CPRE and a company called ITO have developed a website that shows how High Speed 2 (HS2) would be constructed, what the landscaping would look like, how loud would it be and much more.
You can link to the website here http://hs2maps.com/
Community forums
We understand that this current round of community forums will be the last for the foreseeable future. HS2 Ltd has said they will continue to meet with individuals and organisations most of whom will be involved in the petitioning process.
marcus40.rogers@gmail.com mob 07702 490999
jcopcutt@buckscc.gov.uk tel 01296 383793
alexday@buckscc.gov.uk tel 01296 382409
sagibson@buckscc.gov.uk tel 01296 387540
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