{"id":93540,"date":"2018-07-04T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=504fb58afdcb586c4419a6f4f0559d13"},"modified":"2018-07-04T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T08:59:51","slug":"statement-to-parliament-hs2-phase-2b-eastern-leg-rolling-stock-depot-location-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93540","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: HS2 Phase 2b eastern leg rolling stock depot location announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>I would like to update the house on plans for the <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> Phase 2b eastern leg rolling stock depot. I am today (4 July 2018) confirming the depot should be located at a site in the Aire Valley, adjacent to the M1, to the east of Leeds. This decision is laid out in today\u2019s publication of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/hs2-phase-2b-eastern-leg-rolling-stock-depot-decision\"><abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> Phase 2b eastern leg rolling stock depot consultation response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally proposed that the depot be sited near Crofton, east of Wakefield. Due to operational and community concerns after the M18 \/ eastern route decision was announced, I asked <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> Ltd to review alternative options for the depot site. The east of Leeds site was identified and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/hs2-phase-2b-eastern-leg-rolling-stock-depot\">a consultation seeking views on this proposed location<\/a> was launched on 17 July 2017 and ran until 12 October 2017. The consultation revealed broad support for the new location.<\/p>\n<p>This decision has been made with local development plans on the wider site in mind. <abbr title=\"High Speed Two\">HS2<\/abbr> Ltd will continue to work with stakeholders to support local regeneration proposals on the wider site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announces the decision to locate the HS2 Phase 2b eastern leg rolling stock depot in the Aire Valley, east of Leeds,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}