Consultation & Engagement

HS2 Ltd will work closely with local authorities, communities and stakeholders to develop the route, identifying potential impacts and exploring the best opportunities to mitigate them.

Forums

As part of our ongoing engagement with local people and organisations on the London to West Midlands route we intend to set up community forums, planning forums and an environment forum.
 
The community forums would enable local participation, facilitating on-going discussions and building relationships, allowing us to identify local priorities and explore opportunities for further mitigation and local community benefits

The planning forums would be intended to facilitate discussion of design development, planning issues, environmental impacts and mitigation principles and would involve officers from local authorities and other transport and planning bodies.

The environment forum would involve national representatives of environmental consultees and government departments. This group would assist the development of environmental policy for the next stage of development of HS2.

Community forums

We intend to establish community forums along the line of route from London to the West Midlands as one way of working with local communities. These forums will meet regularly over the coming years. We hope representatives of each local community will work with us to:

• inform the local community about HS2 proposals and consultations
• highlight local priorities for the route design
• discuss potential ways to avoid and mitigate the environmental impacts of the route such as screening views of the railway, managing noise and reinstating highways
• identify possible community benefits

We are working with county, district and parish councils to create community forums that will work in each area.

Consultations

HS2 Ltd is aware that the success of the design and implementation of the proposed railway will rely on working with local people and communities. We are committed to delivering informative, accessible and open consultations.