Notice of environmental works to land north of Newcastle Road, Basford

What we are doing

As part of our early environmental works, we will establish critical environmental and species relocation sites creating new habitats for local wildlife before any main work starts.

We will be creating ecological mitigation ponds surrounded by grassland habitat creation on land to the south of Newcastle Road. We will use the ponds to relocate any protected species, such as Great Crested Newts before we need to remove any other habitats.

When the work will take place

We will start the work to create the habitats on 3 December 2022. This work will be ongoing throughout the year and the timeline for the works is shown below:

• Fencing – December ‘22
• Mitigation pond creation –March ’23 to April ‘23
• Grassland creation – March ‘23 to April ‘23
• Hedge planting – September ‘23 to October ‘23
• Woodland planting – September ‘23 to October ‘23
• Demobilisation – late-November ‘23

Throughout 2024 the habitats will be monitored and maintained, with regular visits to carry out tree and hedge cutting.

Download information relating to these works

• Notice of environmental works to land north of Newcastle Road, Basford

Find out more about

• South Cheshire

If you have a question about HS2 or our works, please contact our HS2 Helpdesk team on 08081 434 434 or email [email protected]