Arddleen, Four Crosses and Llandrinio take up pylon fight

Arddleen, Four Crosses and Llandrinio have accepted the baton to become the latest communities to fight multi-billion pound Energy plans that will change Montgomeryshire’s skyline forever.

 

The roadshow organised by developers Scottish Power is set to roll into the villages to promote the plan but a residents’ meeting has been called along with two open sessions to assist local residents in filling forms to let the energy giants know their thoughts on the project.

 

Similar meetings have already been held across Montgomeryshire as opposition to the plans galvanise a local army of objectors.

 

But local resident Nicola Watkins said that there is concern that villages are being steered towards a ‘preferential route’ for the giant pylons as opposed to not agreeing to the plans full stop.

 

She pointed out: “It has been recognised that people may just wish to nominate the route that suits them best and not realise that this is actually giving their consent to that particular route! This is just what Scottish Power wants whereas if the forms are filled out correctly, people could actually state that they don't agree to any route or substation.”

 

The public meeting is at Llandrinio Village Hall on Friday, April 15 at 7.30pm when Alison Davies, Chairman of Conservation of Upland Powys and Dr. Lance Mytton, retired principal Scientist at the Insititute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER), Aberystwyth University will be the keynote speakers.

 

Carol Davies, clerk to Llandrinio & Arddleen Community Council, is hosting the ‘help with feedback forms’ sessions in Arddleen Village Hall on Thursday, April 14 from 10am-12pm and Thursday April 21 between 2-4pm.

 

Scottish Power and National Grid are planning to build a 19-acre substation in Montgomeryshire to link up to a dozen new windfarms to the power network in England. The development would require of hundreds of miles of power cables cross crossing the countryside on giant pylons.