Today's entry reports on the application for a new nuclear
power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
Examination ends
On 31 October 2011, EdF Energy applied to what was the
Infrastructure Planning Commission and is now the Planning
Inspectorate for consent to build a new nuclear power station at
Hinkley Point in Somerset (Hinkley Point C).
Today, the lead inspector of a panel of five, Andrew Phillipson,
has written to parties interested in the application to announce
that the examination of the application has closed today, 21
September. The letter is here.
The examination took one day short of the maximum six months
allowed. The panel of inspectors now have three months to
make a recommendation to Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy
and Climate Change, who then has a further three months to make a
decision. That means that the decision whether or not to grant EdF
Energy's application must be made by 21 March 2013.
