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From
Tim Jones
Date advice given
4 October 2010
Enquiry type
Email

many thanks for your e-mail and I am quite happy for my comments regarding the adequacy of the consultation to be considered at the pre-application stage. The letter has already gone to EDF and the local authorities involved as it was in fact my response to EDF's Stage 2 consultation, so they are well aware of my concerns. For a number of years until I retired a few months ago, I was involved in stakeholder engagement/consultation around a number of closing or decommissioning nuclear sites, which is why I find it incomprehensible that in my opinion, EDF's consultation has been so poor. I am attaching a copy of my response to EDF on Stage 1 on the consultation, which I submitted on 9 February this year, as it indicates how long ago I raised the standard of the consultation with EDF. Other than an automated acknowledgement, I received no other response from them. If appropriate, I am happy for this to also be considered at the pre-application stage.

Apologies Just realised I didn't include the attachment I mentioned in my last e-mail - because I dont have it electronically! I will however, put a hard copy in the post to you in the next few days.

Advice given

Thank you for your emails.

I apologise if my email was not sufficiently clear. We are happy to be copied into correspondence, but the IPC cannot consider any comments at the pre-application stage. This is why I suggested that you may wish to send them to EDF, who can consider comments at this stage. Developers have an obligation to consult the local community, and to have regard to responses to consultation and publicity when preparing their application to the IPC.

If an application is accepted for examination, there will be an opportunity for local residents to engage directly with the examination process. I am attaching to this email a copy of our publication, ?Advice Note 8: How to have your say about a major infrastructure proposal,? which goes into greater detail.

We will keep your letter on file, and it will be seen by a Commissioner when an application is submitted.

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