SIR — Where oh where have the villages gone?
I ask this as illustrations of the proposed Hinkley C do not show Shurton, Burton and Knighton.
Who was the magician that made them disappear?
I'm sure EDF would like to give the impression that Hinkley C will be surrounded by open fields but it will not. It will have very near neighbours. Neighbours that have lived with nuclear power stations for years, that have found A and B to be good neighbours and have always been kept informed by British Energy and Magnox.
Sadly this is not the case with EDF. From the start they have been conservative with the truth and then come the surprises.
Like the doubling in size of the site, now encroaching into the village of Shurton itself.
Once the site is fenced, numerous footpaths will be lost, only temporarily say EDF, but in reality for more than a decade, some forever.
Like the 700-bed workers' hostel on site - most neighbours are opposed to this and have said so from the outset.
But EDF will build a bank to hide it and stop noise, and who believes that the workers will stay in the hostel, behind the bank, when they have time off?
Like the emergency access road that exits into the heart of Shurton, the village that is cut off when the roads flood.
I know other communities will have their problems too, but we are the ones who will see our villages changed forever and have to bear the brunt of this development, and EDF are not making it easy for us.
Sue Jones,
Burton.