Wiltshire Council has given Nationwide Grid planning approval to take away overhead excessive voltage electrical energy line within the North Wessex Downs space of excellent pure magnificence, (AONB) to the north of Devizes, and change it with underground cables.

Archaeological work which is able to begin in December 2023 and building will start in January 2024.

Balfour Beatty, working with its new Korean companionTaihan Cable, will take away 4.6km of overhead electrical energy line and 13 pylons. Building and pylon removing is because of be full by the tip of 2026.

The mission is a part of Nationwide Grid’s visible affect provision (VIP) mission to cut back the visible affect of present excessive voltage strains in protected areas throughout England and Wales. The overhead line as a result of be eliminated runs east from the west of the Roundway Hill and Covet, simply north of Roundway to a subject simply north of the Kennet & Avon Canal near the Bridge Inn on Horton Street.

The planning consent for the mission’s infrastructure, which was awarded earlier this 12 months, contains two sealing finish compounds at both finish of the road being eliminated, the place the brand new underground cables come again as much as be part of and join with the overhead line.

Nationwide Grid senior mission supervisor Chris Carr stated: “Securing planning permission for the infrastructure that can allow our proposals to cut back the visible affect of a 4.6km part of overhead line throughout the Devizes countryside represents a serious landmark within the mission’s progress. We wish to thank Wiltshire Council and native stakeholders for the constructive recommendation given to us all through the event course of. From the outset our proposals have been very a lot formed by stakeholders and we now have the constructive final result we had hoped for.”

Ian Currie, managing director of Balfour Beatty Energy Transmission & Distribution, added: “This newest contract award is a testomony to our longstanding relationship with Nationwide Grid and our unrivalled experience and expertise in delivering complicated power initiatives. We look ahead to bringing again the unhindered views in considered one of Britain’s most lovely landscapes for walkers, guests and the area people, while additionally guaranteeing the continued, safe provide of power to properties and companies.”

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