Last week the Secretary of State decided to grant permission for Sizewell C to be built with a significant number of conditions. Since then, I've spent time looking through the long report. The main question people understandably are asking is why the Secretary of State went against the recommendation of the Planning Inspectorate, which surprised me too. I have written to the Secretary of State to seek a meeting to discuss this further and how he intends to ensure the conditions of the order will be fulfilled. This is critical after other significant projects, including windfarms, managed to change their conditions without any particular public involvement. While there is no formal appeal process against the decision made by the Secretary of State under the 2008 Act, I expect that applications will go to the High Court for a judicial review of the process.
