High Speed 2
We have reached the stage
of petitioning the Hybrid Bill which received its second reading in the Commons
on 28th April. Petitioning
is a final chance of influencing the project and securing improvements.
The petitioning deadline
was the 23rd May. Petitioners
will be invited to attend the HS2 Select Committee – the timetable is yet to be
announced.
The Bucks County
Council petition can be seen on the 51m group website at http://www.51m.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/BCC-Petition-FINAL-BCC.pdf
The
AVDC petition will be published on the council’s website shortly.
AVDC’s petition will pick up on noise issues, construction
related matters, ecological and heritage concerns. Bucks
County Council’s petition focuses on route-wide and strategic issues, including
highways, waste disposal, and ecological issues.
Key requests
relating to this area:
a) Sustainable placement (spoil dump) at Calvert
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consider
whether the waste material could be put to alternative uses in the vicinity
(e.g. the incinerator site)
b) A Country Park in the Vale of Aylesbury
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provision should be made for a country park
(and an endowment for its future maintenance and management) in the vicinity of
the IMD
c) Mitigation for the impacts from the
Infrastructure Maintenance Depot
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deliveries
of larger and bulkier goods and materials to the IMD should be made by rail
both during the construction stage and when in operation;
-
a
traffic routing scheme should be implemented that takes into account the environmental
impacts of traffic as well as traffic movements;
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night
time deliveries to the site, both during the construction stage and when in operation,
should be minimised;
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lighting at the site should be low-level, designed
to minimise light-spillage, or activity-initiated;
-
the open brook that will be removed during
construction should be reinstated after the temporary railhead has been
removed.
d) Impact on East West Rail
-
ensure
that the implementation of East West Rail will not be delayed or its subsequent
operation affected unduly or unreasonably by the construction or operation of
the works to be authorised by the Bill
-
ensure
that a station is provided (either by building it or funding it) on the East
West Rail line at Steeple
Claydon, to serve the IMD and surrounding communities.
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