27-Apr-2019
AONB Archive
Index of documents from previous phases of the campaign. NB Many links to HS2 documents no longer work.
See also, Timeline from Building.co.uk (25-Apr-2019)
- 11-Mar-2010
Initial announcementby Lord Adonis- Feb-July 2011
- 'Consultation' on the route
- 10-Jan-2012
- HS2 gets go-ahead - Announcement by Justine Greening
- March 2012-March 2013
Community Forum meetings - August 2013
- Draft Environmental Statement - HS2 documents and Responses
- November-2013
- (Phase 1 ) Hybrid Bill published; High Speed Rail (preparation) bill passed
- December 2013-February 2014
- Final Environmental Statement consultation
- 24-March-2014
- HS2 link to HS1 abandoned - "too many compromises"
- 28-April-2014
-
Hybrid Bill 2nd Reading debate - July 2014
- Court of Appeal rejects case against HS2
- Spring 2015
- Public Accounts Committee, House of Lords Economic Affairs Committees report (unfavourably) on HS2
- 7-May-2015
- General Election - end of Coalition Government
- June 2015
- HS2 Select Committee visits to the Chilterns
- July 2015
- HS2 SC hearings on the Chilterns Tunnel Extension
- August 2015
- C6 extension to the Chilterns Tunnel confirmed. The 2.5km extension, while welcomed, still leaves 8km of line on the surface in the AONB, and does nothing to mitigate the Wendover Dean and Smalldean Viaducts
- September-December 2015
- Other AONB petitioners are heard.
HS2 Ltd release traffic assessments for a further 20 junctions in the AONB, as part of Strategic Environmental Statement part 3 / Additional Provisions 4, implementing the Chilterns Tunnel (short) extension - January 2016
- Locus Standi hearings for AP4 petitions; most petitioners are turned away, including the Chiltern Society
- February 2016
- AP4 petitions heard by the Committee
- 23-February-2016
- Select Committee Final report published
- 22-March-2016
- Public Administration Committee report on HS2 Ltd -
"There is still a culture of defensive communication and misinformation within this public body and that is not acceptable" - 23-March-2016
- The report stage and third reading of the HS2 hybrid bill were completed in around 3 hours, on the afternoon of 23rd March - leaving insufficient time to debate or vote on many amendments.
House of Lords First and Second reading debates. - 18-April-2016
- Deadline for petitions to the House of Lords Select Committee
- 5-June-2016
- House of Lords Committee - Locus Standi hearings commence; over 400 petitioners challenged by HS2 Ltd
- 8-July-2016
- HS2 rated "Amber-Red", again Major projects authority report (suppressed)
- 11-July-2016
- Lord's Select Committee deny locus to 7 MPs
- 14-July-2016
- Chris Grayling appointed (5th) transport secretary; as useless as his predecessors.
- Nov 2016
- Lord's SC hear petitions from the Chilterns - do nothing.
- 1-Feb-2017
- Lords approve hybrid bill at 3rd reading