EWR Consortium Strategic Board Meeting Oct 2020 EWR

EWR Consortium. Strategic Board Meeting Oct 2020 EWR 2 - Progress Update

Project status Scheme wide precommencement conditions discharged Majority of the required ecology licenses received Civil works design on target to substantially complete by end 2020 Enabling works for compounds, haul roads, and offline highways has commenced Bridge refurbishments and bulk earthworks commenced at programme critical areas

Newton Longville – Compound B 6 surfacing Bicester - Mill Meadow / Charbridge Lane – Diversion #1 Sections 2 A/2 B Off Line Highways – road widening (Poundon) Haul Road Construction (HRC 9 near Newton Longville)

A 1 Compound Construction Bicester Winslow Cutting Deveg and Drainage Sections 2 A/2 B B 6 Compound Construction, Bletchley Road (nr Newton Longville Winslow Station

Section 2 C Bletchley Flyover Dismantling – WCML & Buckingham Road

Span 25 removal Sunday 20 Sep

Environmental Compensation Sites & Ecology works – Launton & Swanbourne

TWAO & Planning Update Oct 20

TWAO Conditions – All • Project wide precommencement conditions. Can only start any Development when all conditions in each Local Authority Area are approved. • Pre-commencement for specific assets only. ie named bridges & stations for Condition 14. Complete 99 Total 63 Issued 44 approved • Conditions that just require the project to work to drawings already submitted under the order or additional information. Ongoing • Project construction teams required to take action during the project. Ongoing

Local Authority Support & Thanks • Original plan was for 8 week target approval of the main pre-commencement planning conditions. This was not achieved, with Covid-19 lockdown occurring half way through the this 8 week period • The Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP) was generally the last element to received approval, some were achieved far more quickly than these timescales: Local Authority Time to discharge (Target 8 weeks) Buckingham Council 14 weeks (CTMP rev 1) Cherwell District / Oxfordshire CC 20 weeks (CTMP rev 6) Milton Keynes Council 21 weeks and counting (CTMP rev 1) • Currently still on target for Infrastructure ready date but there were some spefic delays that have impacted interim milestones: • BIG THANKS to the Local Authority SPo. Cs and officers in working through this difficult period and still achieving approvals to allow the scheme to continue.

Non TWAO Planning Live Applications Area Initial Issue Initial Query Initial Reply Forecast Approval 06/05/2020 Due wc 15/06/2020 20/05/2020 Eo. T required 10/06/20 11/06/20 Forecast 11/06/2020 Eo. T required 2 B Spooner’s Planning Application Temporary Access Charbridge Lane Allotments Planning Application Bucks Council Ref: 20/01029/F Tythe Barn Planning Application Ref: 20/01040/F Approval awaited 19/02/2020 2 A CDC Notes 16/04/2020 18/05/2020 02/06/2020 17/04/2020 01/06/20 2 A Forecast 16/07/2020 Eo. T required 02/06/20 CDC Approved Awaited Approved 17/9/20 Approved 7/9/20 • Only 1 remaining Planning permission awaiting determination. • 5 of 10 Advanced Temporary Compounds received planning. Only two being pursued now, with the remainder under the TWAO. • 9 Ecological Compensation Sites (ECS) successfully completed with advance planning applications. • Expecting to submit 3 additional minor applications. 11

Communications Update Oct 20

Community Engagement • All complaints/queries now reported into publicinformation@ewralliance. co. uk from NR Helpline, Community Liaison Advisors (CLAs)/project teams or directly into the public information inbox • Communications Assistant coordinating responses to all queries/complaints received into publicinformation@ewralliance. co. uk, working with Communications Manager and Community Liaison Advisors to ensure timely responses in line with KRAs and NR Helpline Service Level Agreement • Weekly meeting held with EWR Co, Owner and Sponsors on key escalated complaints to ensure that the responses are aligned, all responses are managed by the Alliance • Scheme wide project newsletter now issued on a quarterly basis • First issue – 08. 04. 20 • Second issue – 27. 07. 20 • Production in progress on third issue with an issue date w. c. 26 October • Analytics from issue two show high levels of engagement with the newsletter: