EADT - February 2010

EADT No more debate on pylons

GPA Press Release - 12th December 2009

GPA reports on its 2nd meeting with National Grid and TEP

Suffolk Free Press reports on GPA's 2nd public meeting  

GPA Press Release - 25th November 2009

GPA's 2nd public meeting of 23rd November 

Daily Telegraph - 11th November 2009

Andrew Cumming GPA Vice-Chair Letter to Daily Telegraph 

Suffolk Free Press reports launch of GPA website.

EADT reports launch of GPA website.

GPA announces launch of GPA website.

Suffolk Free Press - 8th October, 2009

AT LEAST 200 people attended the first meeting of a group formed to fight National Grid’s proposals to erect 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. Although the preferred course of the 400kV, overhead power lines has not been identified, up to four possible routes have been suggested, including one which traverses the town of Hadleigh and villages of Groton, Kersey, Polstead and Boxford.

 
The campaign group aims to minimise the impact of any route on the landscape of south Suffolk. Colin Blackmore, Groton parish councillor and group chairman, said campaigners were preparing to fight the proposals by forming an alliance with nearby villages, setting up a website, holding talks with Suffolk County Councillors and National Grid and contacting lawyers, technical consultants and planning experts.

"We were delighted to see such large numbers attend our first public meeting. 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.”

He added: “Pylons were designed in the 1960s. Mainland Europe is now leading the way in terms of underground power lines and, not withstanding the apparent costs involved, we do think that is an option that should be explored."

EADT - 6th October, 2009

EADT reports Groton Pylon Campaign Group's 1st public meeting of around 200 people.

EADT - 24th September, 2009

EADT refers to creation of Groton Pylon Campaign Group and 1st public meeting to be held later that month.