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Hinkley Connection Project

Presentation to East Huntspill Parish Council

14 May 2020

Steve Haskayne, Lead project manager, National Grid Gillian Burnell, Communications manager, National Grid Julian Hutchinson , Senior project manager, Balfour Beatty Luke Jackson, Transport co-ordination officer, Balfour Beatty

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Agenda

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Who we are

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Hinkley Connection Project

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In your area

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Questions

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Our approach

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Keep informed

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We are connecting people to low carbon energy. We're building an electricity connection: pylons, cables and substations between Hinkley Point and Seabank power stations. It will also mean we have more capacity on

• ur network for renewable energy from

the South West peninsular.

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• 57 kilometres length
• 48.5 km of overhead line
• 8.5 km of underground cable through the

Mendip Hills AONB

• Mostly T-pylon
• Two substations
• Removing 67 kilometres of WPD pylons

Project overview

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Timeline

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Building T- Pylons

Balfour Beatty has been appointed to build the

• verhead line between Bridgwater and Loxton
• We’ve carried out surveys and preparations over the past

12 months

• Main construction of T-pylons starts in May 2020 and

expected to be complete in 2022

• First activities will be building road access and temporary

haul road

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Removing overhead lines

When the substation we’re building at Sandford is operational and supplying power to WPD’s network, we’ll remove WPD’s pylons from Bridgwater to Sandford

• Pylons will be dismantled and removed
• Expected completion by 2025
• Balfour Beatty will carry out this work

Pic of WPD pylon

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Working safely during the lockdown

We take our responsibilities to our employees and local communities very seriously. We’ve introduced stringent site operating procedures to safeguard everyone, including:

• Significantly reduced workforce
• Detailed risk assessments and daily staff briefings
• Social distancing on all sites
• Increased handwashing facilities and welfare cabins
• Restricted travel between sites

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03 In your area - East Huntspill

Our work in the parish includes:

• Building two road accesses – one at Factory Lane and
• ne at Causeway
• Changing the parking arrangements on Church Road
• Building a haul road crossing on Burtle Road
• Building temporary haul road
• Building T-pylons
• Removing WPD pylons

We recognise these works will cause delays and disruption and we’re sorry for any inconvenience caused

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Reducing construction traffic

We’re exploring opportunities to reduce the amount

• f construction traffic on local roads
• Building the haul road allows us to move traffic directly off main roads –

limiting use of local roads

• Traffic will be routed to and from M5 (junction 22) via A38, B3139 Mark Road

and B3141 Church Road

• We’re working with This is Gravity and others on whether we can use the

new link road that’s due for completion in 2021

• We’re working with our contractors to reduce the amount of stone used to

install temporary construction roads

• All construction vehicles are clearly identified with project stickers/signage
• Safety is our priority and all our drivers will be fully briefed on how to access

and leave sites safely

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Church Road – restricting parking

We need to restrict parking near the entrance to Factory Lane to allow our vehicles to turn safely and to reduce traffic queuing on Bason Bridge

• We need to extend the ‘no parking’ area with double yellow

lines

• We’re creating four parking bays
• We’ll use traffic lights and ‘stop/go’ boards to manage traffic

while we are working to keep our staff and drivers safe

• We’re starting work on Church Road on 15 June and we need

to complete this before starting on Factory Lane

• When we have finished all work in the area, the yellow lines will

be removed and parking on the road returned to its original status

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Factory Lane

We need to access T-pylon construction areas and remove WPD’s pylons

• We’ll repaint yellow lines to prevent

vehicles waiting along the north boundary of the lane

• As the lane is narrow, we need to build

passing places and control vehicle movements

• We’re creating a vehicle holding area,

installing beacons to control traffic flow and we’ll have a 5mph limit for our vehicles

• To safeguard residents of Riverview

Farm, we’ve applied to build a diversion, and we’ll install gates and have banksmen to see vehicles through safely

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Causeway

• Work on Causeway will start on 29 June for five

weeks

• We’ll need to close one side of the road and will

manage traffic with traffic lights

• We’ll put up notice signs to let drivers know in

advance

• When we have finished all work in the area, we will

remove the access and haul road We’re building a temporary road access and haul road

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Burtle Road

• Work is scheduled to start on 1 August 2020 for

six weeks

• Will need to close the road and divert traffic
• We’ll put up notice signs to let drivers know in

advance

• We’ll write to local residents with more information

and publish the diversion route on our website

• When we have finished all work in the area, we

will remove the access and haul road

We’re building temporary accesses where the haul road crosses the road

Questions

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05 Our approach - We want to be a good neighbour

Creating opportunities to talk and meet with residents and businesses.

Before construction begins in each area, we’re:

• Providing updated project briefings to parish

councils – via digital media

• Writing to residents and businesses with

updates

• Promoting our 24/7 community helpline
• We’ve had to postpone public information

events during the lockdown but we will rearrange these as soon as we can

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Free STEM sessions for schools

• KS1, KS2 & KS3 practical workshops

Hinkley Connection Education Fund

• Funding to support 131,018 pupils and 538

schools (including 2 awards to East Huntspill primary school)

• £354,000 awarded since 2018.

Adult skills

• 175 local unemployed people trained. 66 have

secured employment. Community Grant Fund

• Over £285,000 to community projects to date
• We welcome applications for local projects

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Our dedicated community relations team is on hand to respond to queries and complaints.

• By telephone 0800 377 7347 (24 hours)
• Via the website www.hinkleyconnection.co.uk
• By email hinkleyconnection@nationalgrid.co.uk
• By post FREEPOST H POINT CONNECTION

We value your interest in the project

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