SIR — The proposed Hinkley C presents challenges and opportunities for the whole area.

It is only right and proper that all local communities share the impact of the development.

Indeed, the whole area expects to benefit from not only security of energy supplies but also community benefits in mitigation.

It would therefore be totally unreasonable and unjust that the whole burden of the construction site plus the housing of all 2,000 construction workers should fall on the residents of Shurton, Burton and Knighton.

Already reeling under the massive expansion of the site from some 90 to 200 hectares, these small hamlets now face living within metres of the largest construction site in the whole of South West England and possibly the largest in the country at present.

They will have to live 24 hours a day for the next eight years with noise, light and air pollution from a construction site on their doorstep.

It is already anticipated that 700 workers be housed on site within metres of Shurton and local residents feel quite rightly that enough is enough. The quiet aspect of our hamlets will be changed forever.

Sue Goss,

Burton.