Under the plans published by BRB/CGN for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell, much of our attractive village would become little more than an ugly industrial sprawl.

The proposed new road Strategic Route 2 would cut a vast swathe straight through the middle of our own land, destroying woodland and wild flower meadows which are home to many ‘protected’ species.

Sickeningly, I only found out about these proposals after the plans had been published and I saw them online.

The Curry Farm Nature Reserve is known for its remarkable diversity of species and particularly for its populations of butterflies, dragonflies, bumble-bees and bats.

It has an incredible ecological history, documented both at home and abroad.

Between at least 1947 and 1960 the Black V Moth was resident here and up to the current time no other colony has ever been found in Britain.

In1999 colonies of the Small Red-eyed damselfly were found here and at that time this species had never been seen in Britain.

Perhaps even more remarkably the large tortoiseshell butterfly continues to be seen here regularly but is otherwise believed to be extinct in Britain.

Surely, nothing could better illustrate BRB/CGN’s contempt for local people and the natural environment than to even consider bulldozing a new road straight through the middle of such a place.

Stephen Dewick

Mill End

Bradwell-on-Sea