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 steps he is taking to ensure that peak noise measurements are used by HS2 Ltd when developing proposals on the night use of High Speed 2.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Phase One of HS2 includes predictions of maximum sound levels from HS2 trains on residential properties. This has informed the noise mitigation provided as part of the scheme. The maximum acceptable sound levels at night are set out in Information Paper E20.

Phase Two will undertake an EIA that will include predictions of maximum sound levels from HS2 trains.