PLANS for hundreds of jobs across the district could be put on hold because energy bosses are looking elsewhere.

EDF Energy, which owns the land beside Bradwell power station earmarked by the Government for a new nuclear power plant, says while the site is still an option, it is focused on Hinkley Point, in Somerset, and Sizewell, in Suffolk.

“Any development [at Bradwell] would require the usual necessary consents, and long term it remains a viable site but our current plans for new build remain solely focused on Hinkley Point and Sizewell C,” an EDF spokesman said.

“In accordance with this, any sale agreed will be conditional on the ratification of the Government’s nuclear national policy statement and on EDF Energy obtaining planning consent for two European pressurised water reactors at its site at Sizewell.”

When the company bought the land at Bradwell, it had to agree that if permission was granted for Sizewell, it could not build on Bradwell.

EDF has already said the land would only be sold to an energy company which has already ran a power plant.

The news comes after a research report stated 6,000 jobs could be created across the East of England by new nuclear plants.