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Chipping Warden and Aston le Walls the proposed HS2
The information on this web page was prepared in 2012. It has not been updated since then and so it may no longer be correct.
Below you can see a map from the Ordnance Survey. After a short while, a coloured line will appear superimposed onto it. This line shows the route of the proposed HS2 near to Chipping Warden and Aston le Walls. The line should be accurate as it is derived from data for the post consultation route that was published by the Department for Transport in January 2012.
This line is coloured green for green tunnels, red for cuttings and yellow for embankments.
how to use the map below on your own web page
Other maps
South Northmaptonshire Council have published ten maps showing how the HS2 crosses their region. Here are links to the map covering Danesmoor Spinney to North of Chipping Warden and the map covering North of Chipping Warden to Lower Boddington.
Recent changes to the route
A report entitled Review of possible refinements to the proposed HS2 London to West Midlands Route says: Concerns were raised during consultation about the impacts on communities in this area where the consultation route would be in deep cutting and green tunnel past Chipping Warden and Aston le Walls. ... We have developed an option that would see the route curve eastwards between Aston le Walls and Thorpe Mandeville ... . This would see the route moved around 200m further from Chipping Warden. Past Chipping Warden itself we have extended the length of the green tunnel from 0.6 miles (1km) to 1.5 miles (2.5km). This would provide additional mitigation for Aston le Walls and enable the re-use of spoil in the area for mitigation purposes.
The Post Consultation Route Engineering report says: Options were developed to examine various possible alignments with either bored or green tunnel solutions for the Aston le Walls cutting. The final option chosen for incorporation into the Post Consultation Route includes a 2.5 kilometre green tunnel ... This tunnel would replace the long deep cutting proposed by the Consultation Route.
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- The consultation route is the route that was proposed prior to public consultation. It was published on 28 February 2011.
- A green tunnel is essentially a deep cutting with a tube put into it, over which grass, trees and soil are placed. It is not as deep as a normal tunnel, and it is much cheaper to construct. This is the definition given on a BBC web page. Here is a link to a photo of a green tunnel.
- The post consultation route is the route that was proposed after the public consultation period. It was published on 10 January 2012.
Credits
The map on this web page has been generated by www.thehs2.com. The underlying map is provided by OS OpenSpace and this is © Crown copyright and database rights 2012 Ordnance Survey. The generation of the map uses data provided by www.streetmap.co.uk. In order to superimpose an accurate line of the route of the proposed HS2, the map also uses data which was obtained from a shape file provided by the Department for Transport and released with an Open Government Licence.