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Leicester Road - National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands) PLC

LE8 0QE•Published 12/10/26
Leicester Mercury • 

What is planned?

National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands) Plc Electricity Act 1989

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an application is being made by National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands) Plc to the Secretary of State at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero under Section 37 of the Electricity Act 1989.

Consent is being sought to remove an existing tower and install a new tower with downleads to two new gantries, which will supply a looped point of connection for a 49MW solar scheme at Wistow Lodge PV, Leicester Road, Wistow, LE8 0QF (Planning Ref: 22/01133/ FUL).

Existing Tower AZ55 to be removed, new tower and downleads installed to new gantries within in the new substion.

The tower and gantry will be located at grid reference:
1. E=463769.617 N= 294849.466
2. E=463741.505 N= 294791.198
3. E=463769.543 N= 294791.170

Plans can be viewed using the web link: www.nationalgrid.co.uk/our-network/publicconsultations-on-overheadlines- s37-planningapplications or by emailing Trobson@nationalgrid.co.uk

Any person wishing to object to the application should send particulars of such an objection using the reference CW52634 Wistow Lodge PV by email to s37consents@energysecurity.gov.uk, or to the following address: Energy Infrastructure Planning, 3-8 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2JP

SUCH OBJECTIONS MUST BE RECEIVED

BY 4 weeks from latest publication. Any such objections or representations will be copied to the relevant planning authority and the applicant unless the person making them requests in writing that they should not so be copied. If there is such a request then the relevant planning authorities and the applicant will only be informed that an objection has been made but no details will be forwarded to them.

Tadd Robson Consents and Wayleave Specialist National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands) Plc Isaac Newton Way, Grantham, NG31 9RT

Tel: 07595124471

Email: Trobson@nationalgrid.co.uk

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