Knowledge Hub
On this page you can view and download a selection of materials that provide more information about the HyNet North West Hydrogen Pipeline.
Should you require any of these materials in a more accessible format, or in a different language, please contact the project team by emailing info@hynethydrogenpipeline.co.uk or calling 0800 8606 261.
Documents relating to our second, statutory consultation
- Statement of Community Consultation (SOCC), September 2022
- Consultation Brochure, 12 September to 10 November 2022 (Spreads)
- Consultation Brochure, 12 September to 10 November 2022 (Single pages)
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Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR)
This is a technical document describing the project. It sets out any potential environmental, social and economic effects in detail, and initial measures proposed to mitigate any potential effects, as well as some of the benefits of the project.
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Appendix 1A Competent Experts
- Appendix 1B Glossary
- Appendix 1C Abbreviations
- Figure 1.1: Project location plan
- Figure 1.2: Key components of the project
- Chapter 2: The Project
- Appendix 2A Crossing Schedule
- Figure 2.1 Project Overview
- Figure 2.2 Strategic Options A-D
- Figure 2.3 West Route Corridor Options
- Figure 2.4 North Preferred Route Corridor
- Figure 2.5 East Preferred Route Corridor
- Figure 2.6 South Route Corridor Options
- Figure 2.7 Runcorn Rocksavage Spur Options
- Figure 2.8 Northwich Spur Options
- Figure 2.9 Runcorn Rocksavage HAGI Options
- Figure 2.10 Higher Walton HAGI Options
- Figure 2.11 Cuerdley HAGI Search Area
- Figure 2.12 Clock Face and Burtonwood HAGI Search Areas
- Figure 2.13 St Helens HAGI Options
- Figure 2.14 Warburton HAGI Options
- Figure 2.15 Partington HAGI Options
- Figure 2.16 Central HUB HAGI Options
- Figure 2.17 Preliminary plans for consultation
- Figure 2.18 Crossings Schedule
- Chapter 3: Approach to preparing the PEIR
- Appendix 3A Scoping Opinion Responses
- Appendix 3B CEA Long and Short Lists
- Chapter 4: Legislative and policy overview
- Appendix 4A Local Planning Policy
- Chapter 5: Biodiversity
- Appendix 5A Scoping of Assessment Summary
- Appendix 5B HRA Screening Report
- Appendix 5C HyNet Decarbonisation Project Baseline Ornithology Report Winter 2021-22
- Figure 5.1: Statutory Sites within the Study Area
- Figure 5.2 Non-statutory Sites within the Study Area
- Figure 5.3 Habitats of Principal Importance within the Study Area
- Chapter 6: Historic Environment
- Appendix 6A Historic Environment DBA
- Appendix 6B Scoped Out Effects
- Appendix 6C Historic Environment Gazetteer
- Appendix 6D Historic Environment Site Visit Photographs
- Figure 6.1 Designated Heritage Assets
- Figure 6.2 Non-designated heritage assets and findings of remote sensing analysis
- Figure 6.3 Historic Landscape Characterisation
- Figure 6.4 Areas of High and Medium Archaeological Potential
- Figure 6.5 Levels of Archaeological Sensitivity
- Chapter 7: Water Environment
- Appendix 7A Detailed water environment information report
- Appendix 7B Flood Risk Screening Assessment
- Appendix 7C Water Framework Directive Assessment Summary Note
- Figure 7.1 Water environment study area and overview of surface water WFD water bodies and monitoring locations
- Figure 7.2 Surface Water Catchments, including WFD Waterbodies and Conservation Sites
- Figure 7.3 Solid geology
- Figure 7.4 Superficial geology
- Figure 7.5 Water Environment Study Area and Groundwater WFD bodies
- Figure 7.6 Water resources including Licensed Abstractions, SPZs and Consented Discharges
- Figure 7.7 Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning overview
- Figure 7.8 Environment Agency risk of Surface Water flooding
- Figure 7.9 Water Environment Constraints Map
- Chapter 8: Landscape and Visual
- Appendix 8A Methodology
- Appendix 8B National Character Area Descriptions
- Appendix 8C Landscape Receptor Assessment
- Appendix 8D Visual Receptor Assessment
- Figure 8.1 National Character Areas and Local Landscape Designations
- Figure 8.2-8.14 Landscape Receptors
- Figure 8.15-8.27 Visual Receptors
- Figure 8.28-8.48 ZTVs HAGIs and BVs
- Figure 8.49-8.77 Viewpoints
- Chapter 9: Air Quality
- Appendix 9A Air Quality Automatic and Passive monitoring data
- Appendix 9B Dispersion Modelling
- Figure 9.1 Baseline Air Quality Study Area
- Figure 9.2 Air quality monitoring locations
- Figure 9.3 Construction dust assessment Study Area
- Figure 9.4 Construction phase receptor locations
- Chapter 10: Noise and Vibration
- Chapter 11: Traffic and Transport
- Appendix 11A Preliminary CTMP
- Appendix 11B Preliminary PROWMP
- Appendix 11C - Baseline Descriptions
- Appendix 11D HyNet Preliminary Transport and Logistics Report
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Appendix 11E Traffic Generation Figures for Individual Work Stages
Appendix 11E consists of around 900 pages of raw traffic movement data. This large document would take a long time to open and download, which is why we haven't uploaded it on the website. Please get in touch to request this document by emailing info@hynethydrogenpipeline.co.uk or calling 0800 8606 261.
- Figure 11.1 Traffic and Transport Highways Links – West
- Figure 11.2 Traffic and Transport Highways Links – North
- Figure 11.3 Traffic and Transport Highways Links – East
- Figure 11.4 Traffic and Transport Highways Links – South
- Figure 11.5 Traffic and Transport Highways Links – SRN Study Area
- Figure 11.6 Baseline Traffic Surveys
- Figure 11.7 PRoW Affected by the Project
- Figure 11.8 HGV Distribution
- Figure 11.9 HGV Access Strategy
- Figure 11.10 Tempro Geographic Areas
- Figure 11.11 Accident Assessment Area
- Figure 11.12 Highways Links in the Study Area
- Figure 11.13 Proposed Project Design
- Figure 11.14 Project Accesses Used to Inform PEIR Assessment
- Figure 11.15 HGV matrices
- Figure 11.16 LV matrices
- Figure 11.17 Peak week matrices
- Figure 11.18 HGV Distribution
- Figure 11.19 HGV Access Strategy
- Figure 11.20 LV Distribution
- Figure 11.21 Network Plot
- Chapter 12: Ground Conditions
- Figure 12.1 Ground Conditions Study Area
- Figure 12.2 Superficial Geology
- Figure 12.3 Solid Geology
- Figure 12.4 Historic and Authorised Landfills
- Figure 12.5 Groundwater Source protection Zones
- Chapter 13: Agriculture and Soil Resources
- Appendix 13A: HyNet Peat Desk Study
- Figure 13.1 National Soil Map of England and Wales (NATMAP)
- Figure 13.2 Deep Peaty Soils
- Figure 13.3 Agricultural Land Classification
- Chapter 14: Land Use
- Figure 14.1 Land Use Study Areas
- Figure 14.2 West Corridor Land Use receptors
- Figure 14.3 North Corridor Land Use Receptors
- Figure 14.4 East Corridor Land Use receptors
- Figure 14.5 South Corridor Land Use receptors
- Figure 14.6 Northwich Spur Land Use receptors
- Chapter 15: People and Communities
- Chapter 16 Major Accidents and Disasters
- Appendix 16A Major Accidents and Disasters
- Figure 16.1 Major Accidents and Disasters External Hazards Study Area
- Figure 16.2 Major Accidents and Disasters Receptor Study Area
- Chapter 17: Greenhouse Gas assessment
- Chapter 18: Climate Change Resilience
- Chapter 19: Intra-project cumulative effects
- Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) Non-Technical Summary
This is a shorter, plain language summary of the PEIR's key points.
- Section 47 and Section 48 notices
This document includes the project's notice of publication of the Statement of Community Consultation (Section 47 notice) and the publicising of the project's proposed application for a Development Consent Order (Section 48 notice).
Design Evolution Report
This report provides background to and summarises the need for the project. It also describes the different options and alternatives we considered before arriving at the proposals outlined in this brochure.
- Online consultation event, 4 October 6pm to 7pm
- Online consultation event, 20 October 6pm to 7pm
Documents relating to our first, non-statutory consultation
- Consultation Brochure, non-statutory consultation, 26 January to 11 March 2022
- Scoping Report, January 2022
- Scoping Opinion, March 2022
- Route Corridor Report, non-statutory consultation, 26 January to 11 March 2022
- How we could construct our pipeline, non-statutory consultation, 26 January to 11 March 2022
- Non-Statutory Consultation Feedback Report
Interactive map (under review)
This map shows an overview of the proposals we presented at our second, statutory consultation – the area where our pipeline will be routed and temporary construction areas located, as well as potential Hydrogen Above Ground Installation (HAGI) and Block Valve Installation (BVI) locations.
See mapHAGIs
The majority of our pipeline will be underground. However, we will need around 10 HAGIs at certain points along the pipeline. This includes a Central Hub HAGI, which will act as the central connection point for each of our four pipeline route corridors.
Click here to find out more about HAGIs in our latest blog
Our SoCC sets out how we consulted local communities during our statutory consultation. It provides details about how people can take part in the consultation and how feedback from consultees will inform our final design.
This brochure provides an overview of our updated proposals following the feedback we received during our first round of consultation in early 2022. If you require this brochure in an alternative format, please contact the project team by calling 0800 8606 261 or emailing: info@hynethydrogenpipeline.co.uk.
This brochure provides an overview of our updated proposals following the feedback we received during our first round of consultation in early 2022. If you require this brochure in an alternative format, please contact the project team by calling 0800 8606 261 or emailing: info@hynethydrogenpipeline.co.uk.
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