High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill - High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill Select Committee Contents


7  The Environmental Statement and route-wide Issues

Alleged defects in the environmental statement

135. We referred in paragraph 9 to the material omitted from the originally deposited printed version of the environmental statement. On 23 and 28 October 2014, we heard submissions from HS2 Action Alliance and Warwickshire County Council on whether there were other, more fundamental defects in the environmental statement. We do not rehearse those arguments here; it is sufficient to say that we do not believe a case was made out for there being any fundamental defect in the environmental statement. We welcomed the Promoter's assurance that the environmental statement would be supplemented as and when necessary, and any mistakes corrected. We understand that a further environmental statement will be published in the coming months.

Route-wide issues

136. We will hear argument on route-wide issues in due course. A number of local authorities are taking the lead on those issues. The present position on lead authorities is set out in Appendix 3.

137. We have invited HS2 Action Alliance to review what the lead authority on noise says in its evidence and to consider adding evidence of its own if it believes that there are additional points to be made.


 
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