This page contains the Additional Provision 2 document and amendments required to the High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Bill.

Certain scheme changes can be made within the existing scope of the Bill and a Supplementary Environmental Statement 2 (SES2) has been prepared, and deposited in Parliament, which reports on the likely significant environmental effects of this group of changes.

A number of other scheme changes require amendments to the Bill and are contained in Additional Provision 2 (AP2). The AP2 Environmental Statement (AP2 ES) reports on the likely significant environmental effects of the amendments included within AP2. Both AP2 and the AP2 ES have also been deposited in Parliament.

An estimate of the cost of the additional or amended works and land included in Additional Provision 2 (AP2).

These documents contain additional and replacement plan sheets showing additional and amended works and land affected by Additional Provision 2 (AP2). They also contain additional or replacement sections along the centre line of new and amended scheduled works.

A Book of Reference identifies all owners, lessees and occupiers with a qualifying interest in land to be acquired or used. All persons and organisations are listed by parish or borough, against each of the parcels of land which are described in the Book of Reference and shown on the Parliamentary Plans. All persons or organisations appearing in the Book of Reference will be served with a formal notice immediately following the deposit of Additional Provision 2 (AP2).

An occupier with a qualifying interest is a person whose interest is equal to or greater than a three-month tenancy agreement.

The Book of Reference is a snapshot in time as interests in land and property frequently change. If you have an interest in land that was not included in the Book of Reference but believe it should have been, please contact the HS2 Helpdesk on 08081 434 434 or hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk

Where Additional Provision 2 (AP2) authorises the acquisition of land on which there are houses, a statement of the total number of houses and of the people residing in them within each relevant area is required to be deposited. The term 'house' includes any separate dwelling.

The Supplementary Environmental Statement 2 (SES2) and Additional Provision 2 Environmental Statement (AP2 ES) are separate environmental statements but have been produced as combined reports. Both the SES2 and AP2 ES provide an update to the main ES (the Environmental Statement submitted with the High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Bill (‘the Bill’) to Parliament in January 2022), and the Supplementary Environmental Statement 1 (SES1) and Additional Provision 1 Environmental Statement (AP1 ES), deposited in July 2022.

The SES2 (Part 1) reports on the likely significant environmental effects of updated environmental information, changes to the design and construction assumptions within the existing powers and limits of the Bill.

The AP2 ES (Part 2) reports on the likely significant environmental effects of the amendments within the AP2 (i.e. amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing powers and limits of the Bill).

A ‘Guide to the SES2 and AP2’ (which can be found under ‘Guidance documents’) has been prepared to help you identify the documents which are most relevant to you.

We recommend reading the Non-technical summary (NTS) first, which gives a summary of the likely significant residual effects in each geographic area (‘community areas’) reported in the SES2 and AP2 ES, which are new or different to those reported in the main ES and the SES1 and AP1 ES. Documents listed under Volume 2 present any new, different or removed likely significant environmental effects that arise from the changes and amendments in each of the community areas reported in the SES2 and AP2 ES. Further details of the assessment are presented in the technical appendices in Volume 5. These effects are compared to those reported in the main ES and the SES1 and AP1 ES, where relevant. The NTS also gives a summary of the likely significant residual effects at a route-wide level (i.e. at a geographical scale greater than the community areas) reported in the Volume 3 and off-route (i.e. at locations beyond the Phase 2b Crewe – Manchester route corridor and its associated local environment) reported in the Volume 4.

The SES2 and the AP2 ES will be the subject of a public consultation in accordance with Parliamentary procedure. Members of the public will have a period of at least 42 days within which to make representations following the deposit of the SES2 and AP2 ES in Parliament and the first publication of the necessary newspaper notices that follows. Details of the closing date to comment, response channels that are available and the address to which you should send your responses are available on:

Once the consultation has closed, the Secretary of State will publish all comments received on the SES2 and AP2 ES and submit them to an independent assessor appointed by Parliament. The independent assessor will prepare a report summarising the issues raised by the consultation responses to the SES2 and AP2 ES and provide a report to Parliament before the Third Reading of the Bill.

There will also be a separate petitioning period in relation to AP2 (i.e. amendments to the Bill which are outside the scope of the existing powers and limits of the Bill). Within this period, persons whose property or interests that are specially and directly affected by the Additional Provision 2 will have the right to submit a petition against it.

Please click on the documents below for further information on a list of locations where the Additional Provision, Plans and Sections, Book of Reference, Estimate of Expense, Housing Statement, Environmental Statement and Non-technical summary have been deposited for public inspection.