November 2013 Sizewell C – progress since February Last November, we launched the Stage 1 Sizewell C: public consultation on the initial proposals for Sizewell C. We asked local people for their views, receiving nearly 1,300 responses by February. What’s We have been carefully considering that feedback while conducting design and technical studies to assist in our development of detailed proposals. How does a nuclear power station work? happening? One year on since Stage 1 consultation, our fieldwork has included ecological surveys around the Sizewell C site and the wider Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We Come and visit our new visitors centre at Sizewell B to find out manage our estate with the help and expertise of Suffolk The Fugro rig which is being used for Sizewell C offshore surveys Wildlife Trust and place a high value on the diversity of and take a tour around the site. wildlife and the beauty of the local landscape. We will continue to work with partners to limit the impact of • All tours must be booked at least two weeks in advance construction and operation of Sizewell C. Agreement reached • Tours are available at the weekend, subject to availability and demand We have also made progress with groundwater • You will be required to bring photographic identification monitoring, offshore surveys and engineering studies into on Hinkley Point C • All visitors will have to go through a security clearance process rail routes, a jetty for sea deliveries and coastal defences. Last month, EDF Group (our parent company) • Foreign nationals may be subject to additional security requirements and require prior approval from the This is detailed technical work which will go into the and the Government reached an ‘in principle’ Office of Nuclear Registration. preferred proposals for further public consultation later agreement on the investment framework for next year. For further information or to book a tour building and operating a new nuclear power please contact us: In the near future, we will start ground investigative station in Somerset, Hinkley Point C. Phone 01728 653974 Email [email protected] works on the north and west side of Leiston. This will involve small rigs drilling boreholes, which will provide us EDF Group has also announced new investment partners with the geological information we need for engineering and key suppliers for the project, which would be the first studies. Nearby residents will be kept up to date with nuclear power station to be built in Britain since Sizewell B. activities in advance, but in the meantime if you have any questions please call 01728 833891. We want to be a good Following the agreement, EDF Energy is completing the Speakers and neighbour and keep you informed. necessary further steps prior to making a final investment decision to build Hinkley Point C. The announcement also Presentations We want you to get involved. If you did not respond provides a positive impetus for Sizewell C with EDF Energy to the Stage 1 consultation, it’s not too late to find out restating its commitment to a programme of new build, Are you involved in about the proposals and take part in further formal including Sizewell C. community activities like consultation. Our contact details are on the back page, so get in touch if you have any questions. For more information please visit our website: a local parish council, www.sizewell.edfenergyconsultation.info Women’s Institute, Rotary Club, church or Scouts and Guides? Inside: The latest news on EDF Energy’s plans We can provide speakers and presentations about for Sizewell C Where Are We? the Sizewell C project. Call us on 01728 833 891. Building Sizewell C: Lead sites for park and ride and accommodation campus identified for further Sizewell C Hinkley Point C Get in Touch assessment and consultation If you have any questions or want to know the latest news on Sizewell C you can reach us by: Questions about Sizewell C: Find out where to go Statement of Stage 1 Further Application Decision by Construction Operation [email protected] sizewell.edfenergyconsultation.info @edfesizewellc Community Consultation Consultation/s Submission Secretary of State and who to talk to Consultation with local people to the Planning for Energy and Freephone* 0800 197 6102 48-50 High Street, Leiston, IP16 4EW Inspectorate Climate Change *Calls to 0800 numbers are free from UK landlines. Call costs from mobile and international numbers may vary. Archaeoligical assessment underway at the proposed Wickham Market park and ride site Upper Holton Hoxne Wangford Fressingfield Little Wittingham Halesworth Reydon Green Cratfield Wenhaston Southwold Stradbroke A12 Walberswick Cranley Sizewell C Associated Development Site Options Transport Strategy A12/A144 Park and Ride Reserve Site Between November 2012 and February 2013 EDF Energy We also want to build a temporary accommodation campus near Our intention is to make extensive use of sea and rail deliveries assessment of the traffic impactsLaxfield of Sizewell C and any proposals A144 consulted on initial proposals for Sizewell C, a new nuclear power site for non home-based workers. to support the construction of Sizewell C. With this in mind we for road improvements. We would only take this ‘reserve site’ into further station on the Suffolk coast on land to the north of Sizewell B. are continuing with a wide range of detailed technical studies We have paid careful attention to the feedback received in our As well as presenting park and ride options at Stage 1, we assessment if technical studies indicate we cannot This was our Stage 1 consultation. relating to the design of our jetty, our rail proposals and our Stage 1 consultation and subsequently conducted technical also identified a number of potential lorry park options. At progress the Darsham site. Further technical assessment management of construction materials. Sizewell C would take from seven to nine years to build. assessments to decide which sites to move into further, more the present time, we anticipate that HGV movements to site and consultation would be undertaken as necessary. Construction would involve thousands of workers and millions detailed study. With a more detailed estimate of the volumes of materials could potentially be managed through the use of electronic Darsham of tonnes of freight. These are still early days but the information presented here that will need to be moved to and from the site during the and camera based systems to manage, monitor and control In common with local people, EDF Energy wants to reduce shows how the project is progressing, with options set out as construction phase, these studies will allow us to establish the movements to approved routes. This could possibly reduce the Yoxford the amount of traffic on local rural roads that the project Lead, Reserve or Discontinued sites. proportion of freight that can be moved by sea and rail. This in requirement for additional associatedBadingfield development sites. turn will help us refine our road traffic forecasts and inform our Westleton would generate. During the construction period, temporary A12 development associated with the building of Sizewell C would For more information please visit Dennington help to achieve this aim. Darsham Park and Ride www.sizewell.edfenergyconsultation.info Lead Site With this in mind, we propose two temporary park and ride B1122 Saxtead facilities on the A12, which would take workers out of their This site, opposite the garage on the A12 at Darsham, private cars and on to coaches for their ongoing journey to site. Theberton is the ‘lead site’ for further assessment. It avoids more Yoxford Road Park and Ride Kelsale traffic progressing to Yoxford and the B1122 and Debenham Discontinued Site received a positive response from Stage 1 consultation. Earl Soham Framlingham This site, in the parish of Middleton-cum-Fordley, Saxmundham has been discontinued and further assessment has Campus and Rail Extension Routes been halted. B1119 Leiston Forward Sizewell Gap Campus Knodishall Development Site Campus Green Wickham Market Park andFramsden Ride Aldringham Lead Site Discontinued Site Lead Site B1069 This site is unlikely to be taken Of those sites presented at Stage 1 consultation, this is At Stage 1 we highlighted this site, north of Wickham A1094 Thorpeness Local Consultation forward and further assessment preferred and is being taken forward as our ‘lead site’ Market and in the parish of Hacheston, as our preferred A12 Farnham for further assessment. Construction considerations and has been halted. site for the southern park and ride facility. This remains We intend to invite local parish representatives other technical studies have lead to this decision. Overall A140 the case following technical analysis but we require the Snape and residents near the lead sites to engage in feedback was also supportive but nearby communities outcome of archaeological assessments to confirm the site Hacheston focused consultation early next year. We hope raised concerns about this option so we will consult can be taken forward. Stage 1 feedback also indicated this Lower Farnham Bend that by working with the community we can on it further. was the preferred park and ride site. Hacheston Otley identify ways to limit the inconvenience and At Stage 1 we consulted on a number B1122 of options for improving the current Aldeburgh impact of construction and operation. Clopton Wickham Market position at the Farnham Bend on the A12. We want to limit disruption from our Our position on these options will be development and we will only be able to informed by our ongoing assessment of Woodbridge ParkSwilland and Ride the traffic impact of Sizewell C. achieve this by working with local people. Reserve Site (primary) Bredfield Ufford Rendlesham Sudbourne Following the construction of the power Subject toHanley the outcomeWitnesham of the archaeological assessment station, we will return the associated B1119 at Wickham Market, the Woodbridge site, whichGrundisburgh is within development sites to their original state.