Back to list The Sizewell C Project

Representation by Dr Kay Laskey

Date submitted
30 September 2020
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses
  1. This project proposes building works and permanent structures which will damage and/or destroy areas of the fragile Suffolk coastal area which are legally protected, ie:- - The Suffolk Heritage Coast and the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB (Countryside & Rights of way act 2000) The main development site is entirely within this ''protected landscape'' - Sizewell Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest (Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 - Minsmere sites (Conservation of Habitats & Species 2017 - Suffolk Shingle Beaches County wildlife Site (CWS) WHAT IS THE POINT OF THESE DESIGNATIONS IF THEY ARE TO BE IGNORED? 2) The disruption caused by construction over 12 years will damage our LOCAL ECONOMY which relies heavily on TOURISTS who come to enjoy the beauty and tranquility here. 3) This COAST IS ERODING rapidly especially either side of the site, at both Thorpeness and Cove Hithe. This is too fragile a site to store 38,000mtons of radioactive waste and proposed new defences are expected to cause flanking erosion. 4) As a resident and GP in Leiston during Sizewell B's construction I have first-hand experience of the DAMAGE DONE TO OUR SMALL RURAL COMMUNITY by the influx of thousands of itinerant workers at nearby Sizewell (7,000 at peak compared to 5,500 local residents) with extreemly limited leisure facilities There were many fights, much drunkeness, prostitution, sexually transmitted disease and abandoned pregnant girls at a level hard to cope with in such a small town 5) Since first proposed other forms of energy generation have improved hugely. Is this expensive and poluting project now actually nesessary? It will greatly increase costs for the consumer while cheaper, cleaner (lower Carbon footprint and no nuclear waste) wind and solar energy have become more efficient as has battery storage of electricity