Meeting Report

Regarding: Date: 17 May 2018 EDF Energy Hinkley Point C: Community Forum

Attending: Lisa Redston, West Council Jim Claydon, Chair Jenny Coly, Parish Council Allan Jeffery, and West Sue Goss, West Somerset Council Somerset Green Party Anne Reed, Parish Council Roy Pumfrey, Stop Hinkley Jason Crook, Office for Nuclear Regulation Alan Beasley, Cannington Parish Council Robin Phipps, Cannington Parish Council Doug Bamsey, District Council Paul Naylor, Environment Agency Anne Fraser, Sedgemoor District Council Trevor Howes, Civil Nuclear Constabulary Alan Bradford, Town Dick Best, Parish Council Council Stuart Hill, C.H.A.I.R. Malcolm Reid, Parish Council David Eccles, EDF Energy Mike Dixon, Kilve Parish Council Laura Edwards, EDF Energy Iain Porter, Quantock Hills AONB Anne Lawrence, EDF Energy Richard Cuttell W.H.A.G Isaac Casson, Newgate James Brereton, Stogursey Parish Council Scott Harker, Newgate Ryan Clarke, Avon and Somerset Police Paul Kelly, Newgate Dan Wheller, Avon and Somerset Police

Item 1. Introduction and apologies 1.1 Jim Claydon (JC) welcomed attendees and asked them to introduce themselves.

1.2 Apologies were recorded from: Tatiana Cant (Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge Town Council), Richard Frost (Mendip Society), Terry Ayre (Holford Parish Council), Ann Bown (Sedgemoor District Council), Ian Liddell-Granger (MP, Bridgwater), Andy Coupé ()

2. Matters arising 2.1 The following afternotes and matters arising from the previous minutes from the meeting on 15 February 2018 were raised:

2.2 Roy Pumfrey (RP) raised an observation about inaccuracy in the first draft of the previous minutes. The Chair replied clarifying that there was a problem with the earlier draft but any problems with inaccuracy in the minutes were corrected in subsequent drafts.

2.3 Allan Jeffery (AJ) referred to item 2.2 in the previous minutes, an afternote on sampling conducted by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in to radiation levels in sediment to be transported to Cardiff Grounds. AJ stated that he did not feel the testing provided a clear picture given that only three of the tests applied to

Item sediment collected from more than 5cm below surface level. AJ requested that matters arising from the coming Welsh Assembly discussion on the transportation of sediment to Cardiff Grounds be discussed at the next meeting of the Community Forum. The Chair agreed to this request. Action: To be discussed at the next Community Forum on 16 August. Afternote: The Welsh Assembly debated a report on the petition P-05-785 Suspend Marine Licence 12/45/ML to dump radioactive marine sediments from the Hinkley Point nuclear site into Wales coastal waters off Cardiff on 23 March 2018 following the publication of a report by the Welsh Assembly Petitions Committee.

An attached summary of evidence details local authority and EDF Energy’s rebuttal of the petition.

2.4 RP asked the forum to note that 35 HGV deliveries of concrete to the Hinkley Point C site from Avonmouth (item 2.5 of the previous minutes) would mean 70 additional HGV journeys a day. RP also referred to item 2.6 of the previous minutes to express disappointment at the window screen delivery sign being the only method of identification for Hanson vehicles travelling to and from the Hinkley Point C site.

2.5 AJ expressed his thanks in relation to the continuation of the free Community Bus from Minehead to Bridgwater.

2.6 The Chair raised item 9.5 of the previous minutes – following discussion of the impact of the Hinkley Point C project on tourism in Somerset, the following item has been added to the agenda for the meeting; 'HPC's effect on Tourism in West Somerset & Weston-super- Mare’.

2.7 Stuart Hill (SH) stated that communications around improvements to Wharf have been weak and that he would like a firmer answer on when works will take place. Afternote: Regular drop-ins are held for the Combwich Motor Boat and Sailing Club (CMBSC) and local residents to update on progress at Combwich Wharf. We will ensure that all interested parties receive invites when these occur. In addition, a meeting was held between CMBSC and EDF energy on 23 May.

3. Project Milestones 3.1 David Eccles (DE) outlined the most recent project milestones including:

• This is a busy time of year for EDF Energy’s Inspire Programme; • A focus of the project going forward will be on developing the supply chain with particular attention paid to the ‘MEH alliance’: mechanical, electrical and heating ventilation functions; • There were 108 fly parking complaints in the previous month, the dedicated fly parking team will continue to take action against offenders; • The construction of the Cannington Park and Ride facility was now complete with

Item opening scheduled for end of May; • The Hinkley Accommodation Campus is scheduled to open on 11 June, with the Sedgemoor Campus scheduled to open at the end of 2018; • The Bath Road works are ongoing and steps are being taken to mitigate any inconvenience caused to the local community.

3.2 DE issued a handout which detailed the achievements of the Hinkley Point C project in education and job creation.

3.3 Sue Goss (SG) asked whether the forum could be issued with an afternote on a breakdown of complaints received relating to the Hinkley Point C Project over the previous two or three years. DE replied that such breakdowns are delivered quarterly to Andrew Goodchild (AG) at West Somerset Council and that he should be spoken to for this sort of information.

3.4 Stuart Hill (SH) asked whether statistics could be made available on the monitoring of air quality in the Hinkley Point C corridor. DE stated that a report had been made by the relevant West Somerset officer that showed EDF Energy were nowhere near exceeding limits on air quality both inside Bridgwater and in the area around the site. Doug Bamsey (DB) agreed to provide an afternote on air quality monitoring to the forum. Afternote: Sedgemoor District Council undertakes air quality monitoring and produces an air quality report annually in fulfilment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 (Local Air Quality Management).

There are two types of air quality monitoring the Council undertakes and these are for NO2 and PM10 and PM2.5

NO2 NO2 is a gas which is released into the atmosphere when fuels are burned (for example, petrol or diesel in a car engines). For this reason NO2 levels are typically higher when close to busy roads and therefore this is where the monitoring points (diffusion tubes) are located.

Sedgemoor District Council currently has 31 diffusion tube monitoring points for NO2 throughout the district including locations at Bridgwater, Cannington, Highbridge, Rooksbridge and Cheddar. Their results can be found in each year’s air quality report which are on Sedgemoor District Councils website: https://www.sedgemoor.gov.uk/1014

Tubes are collected on a monthly basis and at the end of the year the annual mean is calculated, with a local bias adjustment applied to the results. There are no exceedances of the UK air quality objectives for the last reported year 2017 or in any of the prior years.

PM As from February 2018 Sedgemoor District Council has been monitoring very fine dust through the use of four new state-of-the-art air quality machines which report live data minute by minute. The equipment has been placed in locations around Bridgwater and the very fine dust is technically known as particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5). These very small dust particles are commonly associated with road dust caused by wear and tear of brakes and tyres on vehicles (PM10) and also from vehicle engine emissions (PM2.5).

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To date there has only been one exceedance of the 24-hour mean for PM10 at two sites being Quantock Road and at the junction between West Street and North Street. The 24- hour means objective should not be exceeded at each site more than 35 times a year.

The results will also be reported annually to Defra in the Councils air quality report and results/updates given to Ward Councillors and placed on the council’s website.

3.5 Roy Pumfrey (RP) stated that the fly parking statistics only document those workers who had been caught fly parking. RP also asked when the next worker population survey of Bridgwater would be happening. DE said that the survey would be happening next week. IPSOS had been employed to carry out the work and other sources of data were being used in this survey with the hope of improving its accuracy.

3.6 Alan Beasley (AB) asked what affect the opening of the Cannington Park and Ride would have on operations at the Quantock Lakes Park and Ride. AB also asked how Cannington Parish Council could go about finding out their worker quotas for the Hinkley Point C project. DE answered the first question saying that he would look in to this and the second by asking AB to refer to the Development Consent Order (DCO).

3.7 Robin Phipps (RP) asked whether the policy of ticketing fly parking vehicles had ended. DE said that policy of ticketing vehicles had been reintroduced, but given the complexity of the issue this was just one of a number of potential solutions. RP asked DE whether after four years of construction EDF Energy were going to take responsibility for the numbers of people still fly parking. DE said that there will always be transgressors and that the Hinkley Point C code of conduct made it clear that such behaviour was unacceptable.

3.8 Sue Goss (SG) asked whether the area of the ‘Cannington cluster’ for measuring those living in the area in the DCO covered just Cannington or a wider area. DE said that it covered a wider area but this was because it is impossible to isolate smaller areas, the cluster needs to be big enough to measure. SG said that she felt this needed to be explained more clearly.

3.9 DE played a video showing the achievements made at the Hinkley Point C site. A time lapse video of project progress was also shared.

3.10 Stuart Hill (SH) asked when the latest films of the Hinkley Point C site were available online. DE said that they were made available every quarter.

3.11 Anne Lawrence (AL) gave a presentation on construction progress at the Hinkley Point C site.

3.12 SH asked whether the industry average could be included in statistics on site safety. AL said that when compared to other construction industries, the Hinkley Point C project comes out best in class.

3.13 Richard Cuttell (RC) questioned why such an emphasis was being placed on the HPC Jetty when DE had previously stated that HGV movements will remain the same and serve to transport alternative goods to the site. DE said that the number one priority for delivery through the jetty was to be aggregate but the facility did offer flexibility in what could be

Item delivered.

3.14 Anne Fraser (AF) asked whether the delivery of concrete segments to the site would lead to more abnormal load deliveries being made. DE said that it would not and these segments were already in the process of being delivered.

4. Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR) Update 4.1 Jason Crook (JC) delivered an update to the forum on the compliance study that the ONR have conducted in to the construction of Hinkley Point C. This included:

• License Condition 28 arrangements were judged to fall short of what was expected. As a result, the ONR have requested that a maintenance plan is put in place before the next phase of construction. • There was some inconsistency in the placing of warning notices throughout the site. Although warning notices were sufficient, the ONR requested that attention was paid to putting any inconsistencies right. • Improved culture and oversight had been observed at the Areva Creusot Forge following a recent inspection. • The full report is available on the ONR website.

4.2 Stuart Hill (SH) asked about the forged documents discovered during a previous inspection of Areva’s Creusot Forge. JC said that the Nuclear New Build Company (NNB) had inspected critical components through a third party. The ONR also have oversite on all components shipped to the Hinkley Point C site.

4.3 Allan Jeffery (AJ) asked whether the Creusot site would be producing any major parts for Hinkley Point C and whether any other parts would be coming from abroad from firms such as Japan Steel Works. JC said some parts would be produced by Japan Steel Works. AL said that the choice of suppliers was based on their capability to deliver the appropriate components. In addition to NNB and the ONR, EDF Energy also has their own inspection standards and all procured components must meet these.

4.4 Richard Cuttell (RC) asked whether visits by the ONR were on the spot or prearranged. JC confirmed that they were prearranged.

5. Community Impact Mitigation (CIM) Fund

5.1 Lisa Redston (LR), Community and Housing Impact Mitigation Lead at West Somerset Council, gave a presentation on the funding awards and the levels of funding leftover in the CIM Fund.

5.2 Allan Jeffery (AJ) asked LR why an application from the Royal Nationa Lifeboat Insitituion for a new lifeboat at Burnham-on-Sea was refused. LR said that the RNLI had not put

Item across the case for an impact resulting from HPC activity, and have been invited to think again and reapply.

5.3 Mike Dixon (MD) asked whether local libraries were able to apply for CIM funding. LR said that any project that identifies a problem as a result of HPC activity, and seeks to mitigate it is eligible to apply for funding so long as they can put an appropriate plan together.

5.4 MD asked about another community fund. LR stated that this was the Hinkley Point C Community Fund and was managed through the Somerset Community Foundation. These funds were available for themed initiatives. More general applications needed to come through the CIM Fund route.

6. HPC’s effect on tourism in West Somerset and Weston-Super-Mare

6.1 Laura Edwards (LE) delivered a presentation on the Hinkley Point C project’s impact upon tourism in West Somerset and Weston-Super-Mare. The presentation concluded that there were challenges to the sector as a result of the project, but these were being managed, with no substantial impact; positive or negative currently being experienced as a result of the Hinkley Point C project.

6.2 Anne Fraser (AF) asked whether the impact of increased traffic in the area was affecting the tourism industry or causing people to have negative perceptions of the area, and were any statistics detailing this available. DE said that an EDF Energy study in partnership with Visit Somerset showed no impact on tourism.

6.3 Allan Jeffery (AJ) asked whether any of the ten new hotels that are currently proposed for the area would have limits on the numbers of Hinkley Point C workers who could live there. LE said that this depended on the hotel in question; in any case ten hotels represented a large number of available rooms entering the market.

6.4 Sue Goss (SG) questioned whether the additional hotels being constructed would be economically viable once the construction phase of the Hinkley Point C project was over. LE clarified that not all ten of the proposed hotels had received planning permission. DE said that the companies investing in these projects would not be doing so unless they felt that they were viable in the long term.

6.5 Stuart Hill (SH) asked about the effect of the Hinkley Point C project on local accommodation costs. DE said that EDF Energy did not collect such data, but that rents going up were a sign of a vibrant local economy.

6.6 Roy Pumfrey (RP) asked that with a total of 5600 people working on the site, 2000 of these living locally and another circa. 4000 travelling in, why were only 1500 beds worth of capacity being added to the local housing stock? What was in place to cater for the

Item remaining 2500 people who need accommodation in the area? DE said that spare rooms had served to create additional capacity in the area through homes in multiple occupancy (HMOs). EDF Energy is not experiencing problems with workers struggling to find rooms.

6.7 SG asked whether EDF Energy were reviewing this on an ongoing basis, DE said that they would be updating their worker accommodation strategy, which were last reviewed in 2011.

7. Transport Forum meeting

7.1 Draft minutes from the Transport Forum held on 3 May 2018 were available at the meeting. The Chair gave a summary of the key points raised. A presentation was given by Andy Coupé and Steve Gooding on the proposed works to the Quantock Road Roundabout during the workshop. Rachel Lister and John Bower each delivered presentations on transport matters to the forum.

7.2 Topics discussed at the meeting included the stacking of HPC buses and the number of cars in residential areas as a result of an increase in the number of houses in multiple occupancy (HMOs).

7.3 Allan Jeffery (AJ) asked where the air quality monitoring sites were for the Hinkley Point C project. DE said that they were at a number of set points. Doug Bamsey (DB) offered to share a monitoring report on monitoring locations issued to a previous meeting of the Transport Forum. Afternote: An attached presentation from Sedgemoor District Council outlines air quality monitoring sites.

7.4 AJ asked when the works on the Quantock Road Roundabout would begin. DB said that they had yet to receive planning consent.

7.5 Anne Fraser (AF) stated that a Sedgemoor executive committee report on air quality had found no problems, and that members of Sedgemoor District Council had no concerns with the report’s findings.

7.6 Roy Pumfrey (RP) asked a question in relation to agenda item 6.3 of the Transport Forum minutes, why had two of the questions raised by Alan Beasley not been answered as an afternote? The Chair said that as this matter had been raised at a Transport Forum, it could be discussed at the next meeting of the Transport Forum.

7.7 Stuart Hill (SH) asked about what he felt was a steady increase in the speed of Hanson lorries travelling through the area and whether they were still being monitored. He also asked whether anything could be done to encourage cyclists to use cycleways and avoid travelling in large groups on roads. Ryan Clarke (RC) said that cyclists were well within

Item their rights to travel on the roads despite it being frustrating for some motorists. Dan Wheller (DW) said that the police were currently conducting safe cycling workshops in colleges and schools in the area. Members discussed the issue and DB stated that he felt the Transport Forum was a more appropriate place for such a discussion.

8. Main Site Forum meeting 8.1 Draft minutes from the Main Site Forum that was held on 18 April 2018 were available at the meeting. Workshops were given by Luke Stevens and Lidia Bosa on the southern landscaping area and Hinkley accommodation respectively.

8.2 Topics discussed at the meeting included dust particulates and noise monitoring.

9. AOB 9.1 Robin Phipps (RP) asked DE whether he had any comment to make on a recent item in the Bridgwater Mercury that reported on EDF Energy’s payment for the number of workers living in Cannington exceeding the DCO limit. DE said that he had mentioned the topic of contingency payments earlier and DB said that Sedgemoor District Council had issued a letter. RP said that he felt EDF Energy should have let Cannington Parish Council know directly.

9.2 Allan Jeffrey (AJ) asked about the proposed merger of Taunton Deane and West Somerset councils, will it result in the loss of officers such as Andrew Goodchild? Lisa Redston (LR) said that Andrew Goodchild would be moving on but that this was unrelated to the merger and someone else will be filling his role. Members expressed their thanks to Andrew Goodchild for his work.

10. Date of next meeting The date of the next Community Forum meeting is;

• Thursday 16 August 2018

This meeting will be held at Main Hall, Bridgwater College, Cannington TA5 2LS