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Tonight we are in Ashton Vale on the edge of Bristol. This is where | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Bristol City football club wants to build its new stadium and it is | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
land which some locals think should be protected as it Heald Green. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Tonight we are looking at how planning applications for town and | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
village greens are costing hour local council's a small fortune. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
The average council tax payer, unless he lives overlooking the | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
land, would be horrified at the cost. Also, cuts to housing benefit | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
and the people who could be forced to move home because of them. | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
of people find themselves homeless. Could be Hinkley nuclear power | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
station and withstand a tsunami? Campaigners argue we should learn | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
some lessons from Japan. concern would be that a massive | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
wall of water coming in from the sea would not about the power were | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
supplied and that could build up into a meltdown of the few will. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
All our analysis suggest this is an ideal spot for nuclear power | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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station. This is Inside Out West. The traditional English village | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
green. It is supposed to be the picture perfect image of a quiet | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
country living. Things are changing. A new generation of village greens | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
are popping up in the most unlikely places. They have become a | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
battlefield in a multi-million- pound war between developers, | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
residents and their local councils. There is no chance of a negotiation. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
It is a blunt tool for stopping development. The fact is they are | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
local areas that local people have enjoyed and developer should keep | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
off their patch. We have discovered a war over the humble village green | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
which is tucked -- costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
pounds. That money is being spent on everything from a seafront to an | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
abandoned airfield, to a lake and the middle of the city. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
This part of Bristol is not the sort of area that comes to mind | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
when you think of traditional village greens. There are no duck | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
pond or quaint village ponds around here but there is a piece of land | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
which some locals think should be made an official Talbot Green. This | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
is it. At patch of council owned land, once covered in houses but | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
now used as an outside space by residents. Residents like Suzanne | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
who think this sub -- scrubland is what village greens are all about. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
It is just as precious as a typical town green. It is so well used in | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
the summer. All of the community come around the corner and they | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
walked dogs and children play here. A lot of residents call it a green | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
lung. It would be a tragedy and a travesty to lose the spaces. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Residents here are are fighting to keep this three from development | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
and they are using every legal tall they can. In preserving these | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
patches of land we have to be aware of current legislation. We have to | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
use every angle possible to say these patches of land. That | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
includes the law that protects village and town greens. The | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Commons Act 2006 gives anyone the right to apply for land to be | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
registered. Charles is a barrister who specialises in interpreting a | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
complex law. The law as it currently stands is that any land | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
is a village green are provided that you can show that it has been | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
used for 20 years by local people for sports and pastimes. It must be | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
used, as of right, which means not by permission. It is also a law | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
which trumps any planning permission which has already been | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
granted a so campaigners can use it to fight of development regardless | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
of where the land is or what it looks like. Village greens can be | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
used as a weapon against developers and very effectively. If you can | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
get land registered as a village green it is her criminal offence | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
and it is the highest protection of any land in English and Wales. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Success hits the land owners' pockets hard. They get no | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
compensation for having their land taken of them. They have to allow | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
the public in and they are responsible for any damage. They | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
have no capital value and they cannot sell it because nobody would | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
want to buy it. Kate from the Open spaces Society believes that the | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
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more Rivage Greens are registered They ought to be able to register | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
it. We are here on a new green, which is not always the traditional | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
sort of green. It has not got the oak tree and the pub and all that. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
It is important to the people who live round about to be able to | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
enjoy in this piece of land for informal recreation. His this a law | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
that benefits the few at everyone else's expense? We use the Freedom | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
of Information Act to ask every council but deals with applications | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
just how much they are costing the taxpayer. Of the 66 applications | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
dealt with in the West of England, the council provides cost for 47. | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
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More than �680,000. Somerset County Council spent �84,000 home 13 | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
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applications.. Bristol City Council spent �328,000 for dealing with 12 | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
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The average the average council tax payer would be horrified at the | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
cost of it all. If he lives in a house which currently has the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
benefit of the perspective of village green he would be delighted | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
at everyone else in the county is paying for been getting an open | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
space. If you think this is not a village green should look like, you | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
will be surprised what the money is being spent on. A failed | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
application to have this lake declared a village green cost more | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
than �20,000. They rejected attempts to protect part of this | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
former airfield in Weston-super- Mare cost taxpayers more than | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
�12,000. Somerset County Council is dealing for an application to have | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
these seafront gardens made a village green and the one that has | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
caused the most controversy is the attempt to protect this land from | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
development by Bristol City football club which has cost the | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
taxpayer more than �123,000. That case is set to go to a judicial | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
review after a public inquiry had to be held and it is those | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
inquiries that caused costs to escalate. Where does the money go? | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
A small amount goes to the local authority but most of the goes to | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
the lawyer's and professionals involved. It is good news for | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
barristers but not such good news for council tax payers. Yes, it is | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
good news for barristers and that is bad for the public interest. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
one of those public inquiries involve this piece of land in | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire. Pauline Radley applied for village | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
green status with the support of the neighbours and they are using | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
the law to stop a housing development. Is there an element of | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
Not In My backyard about this? You want the house is built somewhere | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
but not here? Yes, there probably is. That is in most cases, not many | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
people want people on their back doorstep. This is the only area | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
left. If the application succeed it will not be a private developer | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
that loses out but a social housing provider. Bristol-based planning | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
consultant believes this is where campaigners using the law are | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
causing the biggest problem. weird by the large number of | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
housing associations -- we advise a large number of local housing | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
associations and this stops a lot of homes for people who cannot | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
afford them. This could be landed has not been used for 20 or 30 | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
years that are owned by Central Government and could be used for | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
projects like hospices or two at infrastructure ought to be sold on | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
to raise money for other projects in the area. It is no surprise that | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
developers are calling for the Government to change the law so it | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
is more difficult to use against them. The minimum criteria for open | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
spaces being designated as village greens needs to be brought up | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
higher and shown that these areas of land are of high higher quality | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
and that they are used by a very broad and wide selection of people | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
from the local community. Government has suggested | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
introducing a character test to define what a village green should | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
look like. It sounds like a nice idea which would protect places | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
like we are standing on but not scrubby wasteland. The problem is | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
in practice it would be difficult to administer and it would keep my | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
bank manager happy because I suspect we would have a lot of egg | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
-- arguments. A test you can think of, I do nothing would working | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
practice. Concrete proposals will not be made until later this year. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
It looks highly unlikely that the sun will set on this particular | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
land were bought any time soon. These are yet another tactic used | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
by developers and local people to further their respective interests. | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
It is not surprising but it does not seem to be very fair. Our worst | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
fears that government decides to do away with the system for | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
registering and as Greens ought to severely restricted. We would fight | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
that all the way. If there is something you would | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
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like us to investigate then drop me Her later in the programme, we | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
asked if Hinkley nuclear power station could withstand major | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
flooding along the southern estuary. That is coming up on Inside Out | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
West. This month the government is | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
cutting the amount it pays out in housing benefit. Scott Ellis has | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
been investigating what the impact of those changes will be here in | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
the West of England. Owning a home is an aspiration for | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
many. The reality in Bristol and Bath is that one quarter of people | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
are now renting. One third of those receive some kind of housing | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
benefit. It is a bill the Government has long promised to | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
rein in. Are we happy to go on paying housing benefit of �30,000, | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
�40,000, �50,000? Are constituents working hard to give benefit so | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
that people can live in homes that other people could not even dream | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
of? I am going to meet those that are now losing out. A lot of people | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
will find themselves homeless. There does not seem to be any two- | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
bedroom properties in the area but I do not see why I should move away | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
from the area where all of my family are. I will meet a man who | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
is police that �2 billion is being cut from the benefits system. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
People should move out from the centre, it is very set expensive, | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
that is what I did. One of big cut has come in this year. It affect | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
those claiming local housing allowance. In Bristol it leads 900 | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
claimants at least �40,000 a week worst-off. Until recently if you | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
were single and under 25 you got enough allowance to live in a one- | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
bedroom flat of your own. That has now changed to people over the age | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
of 35 only. If you're a single and 34 Don't go, you will only get | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
enough money to pay for a single room in a shared house. It is a big | :13:09. | :13:19. | |
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drop in your rent and it could be a It may means Kate -- it may mean a | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
cake has to move out. In the summer, my rent will be produced -- reduced | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
to �71 a week. That will be a reduction of nearly �50 a week. | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
That will force me to be in shared accommodation. I am 29. The idea of | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
moving back into shared accommodation does make me feel | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
like I am going backwards in life. It is something I have done in the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
past and I thought I had moved forward. Kate is in for another | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
shock when she starts looking to move. There is a dire shortage of | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
rooms for rent in Bristol for those on benefits. Right now, we have | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
only one house that have a double room available. That is �280 per | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
calendar month. If I put somebody and unemployed in there, he might | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
only be eligible for �240. Where is he going to get the extra money? | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
says landlords are not dropping rents as the Government had hoped. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
Instead, they are getting tough on tenants. I have not had a landlord | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
walk in and say, if the housing benefit is reduced, I will accept | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
this, whatever they pay. No. They say, my flat is worth so much and | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
that is how much I want. If I cannot get that, please could you | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
serve notice for the tenant to quit. Evict the tenant? Yes. Bristol's | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
head of housing is also worried. He thinks the cuts will concentrate | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
those on housing benefit into deprived areas. People may choose, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
if they're able to, to live further afield but then they have the cost | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
of travel. It is more likely to spread into the suburbs of the city. | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
A people talk about poverty ghettos, where people on benefits have to | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
live in poorer areas -- area is out of the city centre. Is that a true | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
reflection of what might happen? are already seeing it. What we know | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
about this group of people is they are concentrated in the east, the | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
low rent area. The likelihood is that there will be more renting in | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
those areas. He in Bath, with cuts in housing benefits, there is a | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
bigger impact. Bath is a very expensive city. There is a large | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
student population. If this man from the Julian House charity is | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
encouraging more landlords to rent rooms to benefit claimants. But he | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
doubts there will ever be enough to go around. There will be more | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
homelessness and overcrowding. People have to live together, | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
perhaps with too few rooms, in order to meet -- make ends meet. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
The impact of local housing allowance is that people have to | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
pay on top for their accommodation. Benefits are paid as a minimum | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
which people need to survive each week. If you then have to take some | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
housing costs out of that, people are below the poverty line. Tim is | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
an author and a member of the TaxPayers' Alliance. It campaigns | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
for lower taxes and supports the reduction in housing benefits. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Government needs to make cutbacks and it is going to be a cutback of | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
10%. They seems reasonable this should be shared by all people. We | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
are all having a hard time. If 100,000 people are affected by | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
these changes to housing benefit, and the burden on the taxpayer | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
through claiming of other benefits and crowding in that may result, | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
that will create eight greater tax burden on you and I. | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
That does sound like scare tactics to me. We are talking about a | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
cutback of 10%. You have heard some of the arguments. Does that change | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
your mind? Those people at the lower end of the margins, they need | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
some help, but I think the Government is giving them help. | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
They are getting money and housing benefit. It is just been capped. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
There are the changes coming in as the Government tries to cut the | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Housing Bill. One of the subsidy for families living in houses that | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
are too big for them. For their bedrooms are a luxury the country | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
can no longer afford. -- spare bedrooms. Another meeting. This | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
time, a family living in social housing. The current proposals, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
that means they may have to move out. The problem is, she has three | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
bedrooms. She and her daughter and the need for two. This is my third | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
run. It is not huge. If the only way to stay here is to sub-let, I | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
do not think anybody would want this at the bedroom. This is the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
reason why a I cannot stay in this house. My little home. Helen says | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
there is a shortage of two bedroom homes in the area and she does not | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
want to leave the neighbourhood where she grew up. A I do not see | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
why I should be pushed out of an area where we have built a | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
community, we walk about to make sure the place is clean, you know | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
all your neighbours... It is not just me starting over again. Is | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
everything. It is so much more than just a house. I do not drive. | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
lived in north London for 25 years, lots of friends, and then I had to | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
move to get a bigger house. You do that, you make new friends and | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
settle down. Helen could stay she pays an extra | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
�15 a week for the spare room but at the moment she is on incapacity | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
benefit and cannot afford it. Do you think Helen should stay | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
here? She cannot pay the �15, she will have to move. Do you feel | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
sympathy? She is a lovely person. Do you sympathise with the fact | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
that she has to move? Absolutely, it is difficult but moving is | :19:49. | :19:58. | |
always difficult. Helen has been thrown a lifeline. The House of | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Lords has voted against the Government's spare room proposals, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
deeming them unfair in cases where other suitable accommodation is in | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
short supply. Ministers will have a rethink in the next few weeks but | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
are keen to push on with their plans to cut Britain's spiralling | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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benefit bill. We are asking what would happen if | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
a tsunami hit the Severn Estuary. If you think it could not happen, | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
we have used the you. It probably already has. We have been | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
investigating whether they Hinckley nuclear power station could cope | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
with such an emergency. Hinckley Palace Station sits on the | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
edge of the Somerset Levels. An area that has seen a storms and it | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
is even bought a tsunami. A great wall of water came up the estuary | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
and houses that were there were demolished. The owners of Hinckley | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
Point dismissed tsunami fears. our analysis suggests this is a | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
good place for a power station. Campaigners say it is too big a | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
risk. Our concern would be a massive wall of water coming in | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
from the sea would knock out the power supply and that could build | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
up into a breakdown of the fuel. was a massive offshore earthquake | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
that triggered if the horror came back in Japan last year. 16,000 | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
people are known to have died. -- the tsunami. The plant was engulfed | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
by a 15 metre wall of water. He knocked out power supplies which | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
eventually caused a meltdown. The area around the plant remains an | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
inhabited. Since the 1950s, four nuclear reactors have been built in | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
the West of England, including two at Hinckley Point. Energy suppliers | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
are have applications. This will become Britain's biggest nuclear | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
power station to date if they are successful. In a disaster happened | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
here, the exclusion zone would reach Taunton. We have no worries | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
on that score because we do not get tsunamis in Britain. But we do. A | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
three-metre tsunami hit Cornwall in at 1755 after an earthquake | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
destroyed the city of Lisbon. But far more devastating with a | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
cataclysmic event that battered our coastline a century earlier, | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
causing death and devastation. Cardiff academic believes it was | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
another tsunami. I met him on the north Devon coast. In the area | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
where the houses are built behind us, the houses that were there then, | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
were demolished. We are looking at a significant wave height, or seven | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
metres. Only one house built before 16 07 remain standing in the street | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
that backs onto the shore. Simon's tsunami theory has been challenged | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
about the meteorological establishment which think they may | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
be a more straightforward explanation. On the day the wave | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
crashed ashore, there were spring tides. It hit around the time of | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
high water. We know that that combined with low pressure, strong | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
winds, in lot of rain, is the classic set-up for a severe storm. | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
As recently as 1981, the storm surge caused serious flooding. But | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Simon insists the storm surge explanation does not account for | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
the ferocity of the 16 are seven event. Flooding that is created by | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
other storms is different to that of a tsunami. -- 16-7. It is like a | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
bath overflowing. The first thing you know about being flooded is | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
your feet are getting wet. account from the time described a | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
mighty wave advancing at a speed faster than a greyhound can run. In | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
support of Simon's theory, there are two accounts. Neither appear in | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
official records of British earthquakes. Simon and I are | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
travelling more than 50 miles up the coast to Hinckley Point, close | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
to the scene of the 1981 flood. This is the site of two nuclear | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
power plants. Site aiders de commissioned and site be is nearing | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
the end of its life. The narrowing of the Bristol Channel will have | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
made it even worse, according to Simon. A by the time in get here, | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
it is that higher altitude. Once the floodwater reached the Somerset | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
Levels, there was no stopping it. Both sides were devastated. 2,000 | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
people died. It was a colossal amount. If that is true, it made | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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the earlier flood the worst natural disaster to hit British soil. In | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
one area alone, 500 people drowned. Apparently, mass graves have to be | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
dug to dispose of the bodies. -- had to be dug. Storm surge or | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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tsunami? There is no doubt something terrible happened. As | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
part of its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
Government wants to see an expansion of nuclear power. The | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
ground is being prepared for Hinckley. If its operator is | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
granted full planning permission, the new plant will be five times | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
more powerful than the previous Hinckley site. Protesters had that | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
day will never come. Their opposition is based partly on the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
fear of a repeat of previous events. Our concerns would be a massive | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
wall of water coming in from the sea would knock out the power | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
supplied, it would also knock out the back out electricity. The power | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
station would have no electricity. Although it would automatically | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
shut down, it would still be a lot of residual heat. That could build | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
up into a meltdown of the fuel. That is what happened in Japan. | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
F is confident such an event could never happen. Hinckley will house a | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
different type of reactor to the Japanese ones. There is a back-up | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
supply. The new station have a new comprehensive back-up supply. In | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
Japan, the reactors are not licensed in the UK. We are looking | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
to licence that type of reactor. The pressurised water reactor we | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
are going to build, proposing to build, has got a huge legacy | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
through the world where it has been proven to be safe. The company says | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
the power station is elevated above the surrounding flood plain and | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
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plans take full account of the event from its 16 07. Everything | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
has operated safely. All our analysis suggests this is an ideal | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
spot to build a power station. stock pinkly campaign will probably | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
never be convinced by such reassurances. In the planning | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
authorities allow it, what on the new plant could take off around one | :28:16. | :28:24. |