Groton Pylon Campaign Group inaugural meeting
AT LEAST 200 people attended the first meeting of a group formed to fight National Grid's proposals to put up a high voltage power line across the south Suffolk countryside.
Parish councillors, landowners and residents from Groton, Kersey, Boxford, Edwardstone and surrounding villages gathered to discuss the energy giant's proposals at the Groton Pylon Campaign Group event on September 29.
The UK's energy distributor National Grid wants to build 50-metre-high pylons to provide additional electricity transmission capacity between Bramford, near Ipswich, and Twinstead, near Sudbury, to cope with several new generators which are due to come online, as well as the proposed Sizewell C nuclear plant.
Colin Blackmore, Groton parish councillor and group chairman, said: "The fact that so many people came to express their views and declare their support for the campaign clearly reflects the widespread determination locally to challenge National Grid's attempts to further blight the countryside of south Suffolk."
National Grid is holding 19 public consultation events on the four proposed routes, starting with Hadleigh Town Hall on October 27 from noon to 9pm.
See this week's Suffolk Free Press for the full story.
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