HS2 - additional provision

Amendments between Wimboldsley and Lostock Gralam, include:

• Using more land to provide surface water drainage at the planned A530 Nantwich Road and Shropshire Union Canal North construction compounds.
• Provision of additional landscape mitigation and hedgerow planting at Wimboldsley.
• Realignment and extension of the Smoker Brook viaduct in Lostock Gralam.
• Provision of new shared-use cycle and pedestrian paths along the A556 Shurlach Road, and at Clive Green Lane.
• Changes to the designs of several highway junctions, to increase their capacity and/or reduce potential impacts of construction traffic, including:
  • the A54 Newton Bank/A54 Chester Road/A530 Newton Bank/A530 Croxton Lane junction;
  • the A54 Middlewich Road and Chester Road junction; and
  • the A530 Griffiths Road and A559 Manchester Road junction.
• Provision of temporary traffic signals around the M6 junction 18, to reduce the potential impact of construction traffic on the A54 Middlewich Road.
• Changes to the diversion route planned for an 11kv Scottish Power Energy Network overhead line at Birches Lane.
• Removal of the borrow pit proposed at Byley.

Full details:

Petitioning

Petitioning closed on Tuesday 9 August 2022.

Parliament's guidance about petitioning:

Consultation

The Additional Provision is accompanied by an Environmental Statement (AP1 ES) and a Supplementary Environmental Statement (SES1), which between them set out the expected environmental impacts resulting from proposed changes.

The public consultation was closed on 1 September 2022. Details:

• High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Additional Provision 1 Environmental Statement and Supplementary Environmental Statement 1 Consultation
• High Speed Rail (Crewe - Manchester) Supplementary Environmental Statement 1 and Additional Provision 1 Environmental Statement Consultation Response form (PDF)