The Economic Business Case
In June Buckinghamshire and the District Councils jointly hosted the HS2 Stakeholder Summit that concentrated on the overall Business Case for HS2. The Chair was Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher and speakers included John Bercow MP, Steven Baker MP, Christian Wolmar (transport journalist and broadcaster) and HS2 Action Alliance. The event proved to be extremely well received and there was very positive feedback from delegates. (Report from the Summit)
The Environmental Impacts
Buckinghamshire and the District Councils have recently jointly hosted the HS2 Stakeholder Summit that looked at the possible environmental impacts of HS2 Ltd’s proposals. Sir Henry Aubrey Fletcher again chaired the conference and speakers included Dominic Grieve MP, John Bercow MP, Sir Brian Briscoe (Chairman of HS2 Ltd), Phil Graham (Deputy Director, High Speed Rail, Department for Transport), Steve Rodrick from the Chiltern Conservation Board, Pete Raine (previously Chief Executive of Kent Wildlife Trust), George Lambrick (Historic Environment Consultant) and Mark Bailey (Natural Environment Team Manager, Buckinghamshire County Council) who talked about the BLIS project (please see links below for more details).
Transport for Buckinghamshire filmed the event, to find out more about the Summit please see the video clip below as well as read the report on the Summit for copies of the presentations, the agenda and statements from local MPs (please note that the report is a long document so before printing please think of the environment)
Summit report View video of the summit that took place on the 13th October 2010
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3