Impact assessment
Monitoring the environmental effects of HS2
Here you can find information, reports and studies which monitor the environmental effects of constructing HS2.
Documents
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2026
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2025
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2024
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2022
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2021
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2020--2
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2019
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2018
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/monitoring-the-environmental-effects-of-hs2-2017
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/24542ae7-dd44-444f-b259-871c4cc43b5e/environmental-monitoring-data
Details
You will learn about what HS2 is doing to avoid and minimise our impacts on local air quality as we build the network and this document provides information on how we are building the railway so that our commitments to minimise the effects of noise and vibration are achieved.
Updates to this page
Published 13 April 2022
Last updated 1 May 2026
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