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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