Back to list The Sizewell C Project

Representation by Gillian Horrocks

Date submitted
30 September 2020
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses
  1. Site Selection The site is at risk from sea level rise and flooding owing to climate heating. It could become an island containing 5 nuclear reactors and stored waste. It poses an adverse impact on globally important sites adjacent. There are eight other uncoordinated energy projects planned at the same time. 2. Social disruption The construction will place unacceptable burdens on local communities - from traffic to noise, light pollution and disruption. During the construction of Sizewell B the levels of drug abuse, prostitution and presence of illegal firearms became a significant nuisance for local people. The Worker campus is proposed for a wholly unsuitable location. This area is designated the Heritage Coast and as such boasts a burgeoning tourist industry. EDF's own surveys suggest 29% of visitors could be deterred from visiting because of unprecedented traffic pressures, social disruption, loss of peace, and damage to the prized leisure areas and activities by the construction process. As during the building of Sizewell B, there will be unsupported pressure on health, social, education and emergency services. 3. Transport The increase in HGV traffic is going to destroy the fabric of this rural area. Rat-running and disruption has not adequately considered. 4. Ecology and Landscape Sizewell sits within 2 marine protected areas: the project's impacts on marine ecology have not been addressed adequately. Development would result in pollution from light, noise and traffic (as exists already at Hinkley) The project does not protect spoil heaps and stockpiles from dust contamination and other pollution. There is no clear proposal for the water supply of the region - either during construction or after. Abstraction of water brings risks to groundwater levels and to surrounding habitats and ecology, while the loss of flood storage from the development site brings its own flood risks. It will have catastrophic impact on the landscape character because of locality, design and scale; its construction severs the AONB and destroy's the government's aim of connectivity in attempting to restore diversity and habitat in natural England. There is no mitigation that can compensate for the landscape and ecological damage wrought by the construction. 5 Carbon footprint The energy required to build the power station, including creating building materials, mining, and transport damage, will cause huge amounts of carbon to be released.