PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
High Speed 2 Line: South Yorkshire (17 February 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2017 to Question 62138, on High Speed Railway Line 2: South Yorkshire, what the alternative routes to Meadowhall are that HS2 Ltd has carried out work into (a) in the past, (b) more recently and (c) currently.

Asked by:
Mr Clive Betts (Labour)

In developing proposals for HS2 before the 2013 consultation, HS2 Ltd published a large number of alternative routes in South Yorkshire (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/options-for-phase-two-of-the-high-speed-rail-network).

Subsequently, HS2 Ltd has reviewed these and some other alternatives in preparing recommendations to the Secretary of State before the November 2016 Command Paper. The ‘M18’ route and the spur to Sheffield are two of these alternatives. To prevent unnecessary blight, details of other alternatives have not been published.

As HS2 Ltd develops the programme, including in response to the current consultation, it will continue to look at route refinements to meet engineering, environmental, stakeholder and other factors.

Answered by:
Andrew Jones (Conservative)
22 February 2017