SEDGEMOOR District Council has told EDF Energy of its “serious concerns” about the latest Hinkley Point C plans.

The authority, together with West Somerset Council, has passed a series of resolutions in response to EDF’s stage two consultation on Hinkley C, which ended yesterday.

Councillors raised objections about EDF’s worker accommodation plans, the firm’s “inadequate” £20million community fund offer, and plans for 24/7 working at the main site.

Sedgemoor chief executive Kerry Rickards said while progress had been made in the latest consultation, a lack of information from EDF had led to “full impacts (of the proposals) remaining unclear to either the councils or the wider communities.”

Both councils said the plans lacked “sufficient long-term benefit to the area” and “investment in infrastructure and permanent housing”. EDF Energy says it will pore through all the responses to the consultation, before submitting a planning application later this year to the Infrastructure Planning Commission, but it has not decided when.

Meanwhile, EDF has today welcomed an official report which dismisses claims from environmental group Green Audit that soil at the proposed Hinkley C site was contaminated with ten tonnes of enriched uranium.

The Environment Agency this morning released the findings of its investigation, which found no evidence of enriched uranium.

The agency took soil samples from 11 areas around the Hinkley C site and from three farms several kilometres away.

They were analysed using mass spectrometry, a means of measuring isotopes in soil.