IP16 4UR, Sizewell C Limited, EPR/EB3247ME: environmental permit application
Published 23 September 2025
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Details of the application
The Environment Agency has received a new bespoke application for an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 from Sizewell C Limited.
Application number
EPR/EB3247ME
Regulated facility type
Standalone flood risk activity permit (FRAP)
Regulated facility location
Sizewell C Associated Development Site (Sizewell Link Road)
Land north of Fordley Road
Middleton
Suffolk
IP17 3LT
National grid reference points
TM 41404 67212 to TM 41593 67320.
Receiving environment
Works (whether temporary or permanent) in, over, under or within 8m of the fluvial Middleton Watercourse (main river).
Description of activity
The permanent realignment of 265m of main river to facilitate construction of the Sizewell Link Road (SLR).
The watercourse will be realigned approximately 40m to the west of its current alignment and is necessary to allow construction of the SLR which will cross the realigned watercourse using a portal culvert installed in the realigned section. As well as the permanent realignment and portal culvert the works will include construction of temporary haul road box culvert, installation of both temporary and permanent highways drainage outfalls, partial infilling of the existing watercourse and creation of a wetland and ecological backwater within the existing channel.
How to view and comment on the application
Via e-mail: sizewellcnnb@environment-agency.gov.uk
Via telephone: 03708 506 506
If you have any comments on the application send these by 20 October 2025.
For advice about how to make a representation or if you are unable to make a representation via e-mail please call 03708 506 506.
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