High Speed 2 Railway Line: Green Belt

(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to protect Green Belt land during the development of the High Speed Two rail network.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th March 2021

In designing the HS2 project, we have sought to protect green belt land as much as practicable, and changes to the design have already been made to mitigate this.

A range of protection measures are also contained within the HS2 Environmental Minimum Requirements and these have been produced for each phase of the project.

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