Issue - meetings

To update the Committee on the published HS2 Working Draft Environmental Statement and to consider a response to this consultation.

The Committee received an update on the HS2 progress report. HS2 had produced a Working Draft Environmental Statement which sought to identify the likely significant environmental effects likely to be caused by the construction and operation of the HS2 railway along the proposed route and proposes mitigation to reduce or minimise the effects.

Concern was raised in relation to the demolition of the Greenwood Community Centre in Toton, the additional traffic flow caused by construction traffic and impact on the Toton Fields Local nature reserve.

RESOLVED to respond to the consultation within the appropriate time frame, endorsing the comments in the report with the additional comments made by the Committee and that the support of Full Council be sought to endorse this response.