Antoinette Sandbach – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Antoinette Sandbach on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of noise on residents living across open land, with no sound barriers, from the proposed High Speed 2 route through Eddisbury.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The latest noise appraisal that has been completed for Phase Two of HS2 follows Government’s Transport Appraisal Guidance. This guidance evaluates the noise impact on residential properties near proposed HS2 infrastructure. The results of this appraisal are reported in the Sustainability Statement (July 2013) and include results with and without additional indicative noise mitigation.