A CONSULTATION event on the re-development of Didcot A power station will be held next weekend.

Planning consultants the Pegasus Group will hold the event on Saturday, January 17 at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Station Road from 10am to 2pm.

It revealed plans in August for up to 400 homes, offices and shops on the site of the former coal-fired station, which shut in March 2013. Thousands watched three of the whole plant’s six 325ft cooling towers being blown up on Sunday, July 27.

A major fire in October caused severe damage to a cooling tower module at Didcot B.

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Energy bosses RWE npower said Didcot A power station’s three remaining towers would be demolished in the second half of this year.

Spokeswoman Kelly Brown said: “It was a very challenging year for staff at Didcot B.

“Didcot B is now about 90 to 95 per cent operational and is doing extremely well considering the damage that was done – it is now not far off full strength.”

The plant closed over concerns it would not meet European Union emissions laws.

Nick Hards, Oxfordshire County Council member for Didcot West, said: “What happens at the power station site needs to be something that will bring Didcot a number of jobs and good-quality jobs.

“We have a lot of warehouse-type places around and I don’t think there are enough jobs right on Didcot’s doorstep, for either skilled menial workers or office-based work.”


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