Revised plans to move parts of the existing Sizewell B power station to facilitate the proposed new Sizewell C facility have been given the go-ahead. East Suffolk Council’s strategic planning committee in 2019 agreed to plans put forward by EDF Energy to move some of the Sizewell B elements on land needed for Sizewell C. Campaigners appealed that decision stating that Coronation Wood should not be felled to make way for those Sizewell B buildings to move onto that land, but the appeal was dismissed by the High Court in October last year. EDF and Sizewell B lodged fresh plans with the main changes being proposals to keep the entirety of Pillbox Field as greenfield land, instead of having some parking there, the reduction in height of the training centre from three storeys to two and utilising the former National Grid building on the Sizewell A site, subject to agreement from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority which now manages the site.
East Anglian Daily Times 20th Jan 2021 read more »