EDF has reiterated its commitment to stamping out fly-parking, which sees Hinkley C workers parking in villages and residential streets rather than using the designated park and ride sites.

Hinkley Point C construction director Rob Jordan said disciplinary action had already been taken against serious offenders.

Mr Jordan said: “Following last week’s Bridgwater Mercury article on reports of fly parking in the local area I would like to assure your readers of just how seriously I take the issue as HPC site construction director.

“I have communicated regularly with the workforce to bear down on this anti-social practice by the minority of those working here. 

“With the full support of our Trades Union partners, who jointly signed a letter to employees, we have already taken disciplinary action against some offenders.”

He said that EDF’s monitoring had shown that a number of Hinkley C workers are staying in temporary accommodation in streets with their personal vehicles parked outside and were not fly-parking.

“Nevertheless I give you my personal assurance that I will continue to attempt to eradicate the problem of fly-parking and understand and share the annoyance that such inconsiderate behaviour causes,” he said.

MP Ian Liddell-Grainger has also weighed in on the matter saying fly-parking had to be urgently and effectively confronted.

He says it is utterly unacceptable for construction workers to dump their vehicles anywhere when so much money has been ploughed into creating an efficient transit system for them.

Complaints are flooding in from Cannington, Stogursey, and Combwich as well as from Bridgwater itself about inconsiderately parked cars clogging the streets and denying local people space.

French energy company EDF, which is building the new station, has deployed its own team of parking wardens to issue warning tickets to drivers of offending vehicles.

But since cars are only inconveniently, rather than illegally parked, no real sanctions can be imposed. 

Mr Liddell-Grainger, Conservative MP  for Bridgwater and West Somerset, said:“It has to be drummed into these people that it is totally unacceptable to inconvenience local people like this, particularly when large sums of money have been spent on creating dedicated parking zones as part of the effort to minimise the impact of the project on the local community,” he said.

“I have had discussions about this with EDF, which is fully aware of the adverse impact this is having on local people, and we are both in agreement that the maximum effort must be directed and ending fly-parking before the size of the workforce increases.”