Select Committee on the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill
Special Report of Session 2016-17 - published 15 December 2016 - HL Paper 83
Contents
The House of Commons Select Committee
Appointment of the House of Lords Select Committee
A review of hybrid bill procedure
Chapter 2: The Select Committee in the House of Lords
The Role of the Select Committee
Working practices and programming
Locus Standi (the right to be heard)
Hearing petitions and approaches to decisions
Directions given during proceedings
Chapter 3: Directions on specific petitions
Edward McMahon (petition no. 008)
Laurence, Matthew and Alison Reddy (petition no. 243)
HW Taroni Metals Ltd (petition no. 594)
Coleshill Estate (petition no. 523)
Diddington Lane (Victoria Woodall and 50 others, petition no. 637)
Burton Green Village Hall Trustees (petition no. 760)
Andrew and Jennifer Jones (petition No. 706)
Ivan, Heather and Nancy Banister (petition no. 749)
Mr and Mrs Raitt (petition no. 041)
Chetwode Parochial Church Council (petition no. 074)
Springfield Farming Ltd (petition no. 132)
Mr Geoffrey Brunt (petition no. 338)
Mary Godfrey and Claudia and Crescenzo D’Alessandro
(petition nos. 386 and 249)
Double 4 Limited (petition no. 293)
Chapter 4: Staffordshire to Oxfordshire
Birmingham, Staffordshire, Solihull
Chetwode, Twyford, Steeple Claydon and Calvert
Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville
Dunsmore, The Lee, Ballinger Common
Great Missenden and Little Missenden
Table 1: Traffic flows: A413 and B485
Chapter 6: Colne Valley, Hillingdon and Old Oak Common
Relocation of the Heathrow Express depot
Table 2: Rail passengers arriving at Euston in the AM peak
period
Land to the west of Euston Station
Parkway, Delancey Street, Albert Street, Arlington Road
Mornington Terrace, Mornington Place, Mornington Crescent
Recommendations on improved compensation
Residential tenants and business property
Table 5: Need to Sell Scheme applications
Table 6: Need to Sell Scheme applications: Update (November 2016)
Statutory compensation (and what it is paid for)
Modifications to the statutory compensation code
Balance between town and country in non-statutory schemes
Chapter 9: Environmental Issues
Measuring loss of biodiversity
Air quality and monitoring air pollution
Monitoring in Camden and elsewhere
Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Public rights of way (including equestrian concerns)
Urban environments: green spaces
Urban environments: hedgehogs in Regent’s Park
Chapter 10: Other route wide issues
Design of viaducts, bridges and other structures
Table 7: Examples of noise intensity
Intolerable and tolerable noise
The promoter’s proposed limits, and mapping of noise contours
Compulsory purchase and compensation
Compulsory acquisition for regeneration or relocation
Subventions for business rates
Table 9: Rail passengers arriving at Euston in the AM peak
period
Permanent or temporary land take?
The Secretary of State’s policy
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 2: Locus Standi rulings
Appendix 3: Additional Provisions
Appendix 4: Amendments made by the Select Committee
Appendix 5: Mr Clive Higgins and Mrs Margaret Higgins (petition no. 180)
Ruling by the Select Committee
Appendix 6: FCC Waste Services (UK) Limited (petition no. 780)
Appendix 7: Petitions heard during the final days of hearings