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| Thursday, 02 February 2012 | |
 PRESS RELEASE: 02.02.12Large tracts of land at two sites owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) have been officially sanctioned as available for new development after the last remaining nuclear regulations were removed. The land at Oldbury and Berkeley is equivalent to around 100 football pitches and can now be disposed of either by sale or for lease after the Energy Minister Lord Marland signed orders revoking the designating directions on a total of 46 hectares at the Gloucestershire sites. Each plot has already been released from the conditions of its nuclear licence, or de-licensed. NDA Head of Programme Dr Brian Burnett said: “This is a major achievement for the NDA in terms of returning these pieces of land to the market. We are extremely proud to have reached this stage which marks the culmination of a huge amount of work by Magnox Ltd and their contractors.” At Oldbury, half of the original site has been released including one of the three silt lagoons. Last year, it was the largest single portion of land to be de-licensed in the Part of the 35 hectares will now be used by Horizon Nuclear Power, a joint venture between E.ON and RWE, who are developing plans for a new nuclear power station on land north east of the Magnox site. For further information please contact: NDA: Deborah Ward, This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Comments (0)
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