High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill Contents

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 The Committee’s task

2 The Bill and the Committee

The HS2 Phase One Hybrid Bill

The Bill and the HS2 railway

Additional provisions

The Committee

Changes in Committee membership

Committee programme and decision making

Form of decisions and Bill amendments

Acknowledgments

3 Visits

4 Principal conclusions and recommendations

Birmingham

Birmingham Curzon Street and related matters

Washwood Heath

Staffordshire

North Warwickshire

Kingsbury and Water Orton

Other issues

West Midlands

Birmingham Interchange

Hampton-in-Arden

Other issues

South Warwickshire

Vertical alignment

Roads

Burton Green

Stoneleigh

Wormleighton and Priors Hardwick

Other issues

Northamptonshire

Chipping Warden and Aston-le-Walls

Culworth and Lower Thorpe

Radstone

Oxfordshire

Wardington

Mixbury

North Buckinghamshire

Turweston

Chetwode

Twyford

Calvert and Steeple Claydon

FCC waste transfer station

Quainton and Waddesdon

Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville

The Chilterns

The Bill scheme

Long tunnel options

Shorter tunnel options

Wendover

AONB

Hydrogeology

Roads in north Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns

Vent shafts

Pylons

Other issues

Heathrow

Heathrow spur

Heathrow Express depot relocation

Conclusion

The Colne Valley, Hillingdon, Denham and environs

The Bill scheme

The tunnel case

Viaduct design

Traffic

Other construction issues

Amenities

Harefield

Hillingdon Outdoor Activities Centre (HOAC)

Other issues

Old Oak Common and West London

Ealing and Northolt

Wells House Road, Midland Terrace, Island Triangle and Stephenson Street

Wormwood Scrubs

North London

Canterbury Works vent shaft

Alexandra Place vent shaft

Euston and Camden

The proposed railway in Camden and Euston

Strategic alternatives

Adelaide Road vent shaft

Addressing construction impacts in Camden

Euston station

Links to HS1

Conclusion

Cases settled by negotiation

Further acknowledgments

5 The Need to Sell scheme and compensation

Background

Principles of compensation

Discretionary compensation schemes

Our previous recommendations on the Need to Sell scheme

The most recent Government response and our views on it

Applications from the same area

Businesses

Valuations and offers

Lending

Suggestions of a property bond

Specific cases

Other points

Conclusions

6 Route-wide issues and farms

Environmental issues and ecology

Operational noise

Construction, air quality and vibration

Highways

Design, consultation and engagement

Business and Community

Land take and temporary or permanent occupation

Farm issues and tax

Development and railway

7 Locus standi

8 Recommendations for future hybrid bill procedure

Hybrid bill procedure

The petition deposit process

Rights of audience

Hearings and programming

Decision making

Conclusions on procedural reform

Conclusions

Annex One

Annex Two

Annex Three

Formal minutes




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Prepared 29 February 2016