Lot of the pylon lines seem to be running to the east coast of Scotland then off shore cable to England.
Then you read articles in the news how power companies are removing Pylons in scenic places and undergrounding. Makes you mad
Ssen pylons
- Thread starter hoff135
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Then you read articles in the news how power companies are removing Pylons in scenic places and undergrounding. Makes you mad
Ssen are in a big hurry to get this all done by 2030 so the government will meet it targets and they can go round the world bragging. People who live on the route will have to put up with their rushed, ill thought out projects for generations to come. But hey, the priminister will be able to brag at COP whatever how good we've done.
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quavers
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
on a light hearted note , going back to the seventies the hydro wanted to put a new line through the middle of the farm , agent sat down at the kitchen table with mum and dad showing route of new line , mum said no way it will spoil her view and led the guy to the living room window , he agreed and the new line was installed all around the farm boundary
These days it's all designed with computer software by people far away in offices. Up until a few weeks ago the closest they got was the arial survey last summer. Finally some bod turned up and had a poke about but never spoke to me. I find it sickening that they plan all this without even coming first to see where people live. We are just contours on a computer screen to them
quavers
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
believe me i feel your pain , we had a compulsory purchase order put on us when pipe line came through in the early 2000 ands . we had planning issues with the previous pipe line and were due compo from transco , they kept telling us to go back in for planning time and time again , finally they took over the planning application with us still arguing our case with the compulsory order on us , this time it sailed through with hse withdrawing there objection for the application , the country really is corrupt ! the annoying thing these guys are making billions and offer us a pittance in compo for there projects
hoyboy
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Do you get to keep the road once they've finished with it?
- Location
- south norfolk
The road will be in the wrong place running diagonly across 3 fields leaving 6 triangular fields which will be a pain in the arse to work.not that they are bothered.they said they will remove road and I can keep the material.a pile of type one granit around 5000 ish tons is a massive pile and no doubt the envoiremen agency would not like that.they said they would repair all my farm tracks but they are in good condition anyway and they certainly won’t be using them anyway.ive told them I’ll not have them in my yard and they have to put a gateway across a ditch to access the site.my main farm drive has been made inaccessible to low loaders as I’ve been expecting excavtors for months to do the test holes.also got a locked steel gate to stop em getting in.al very stressful as you can imagine
nick...
hoyboy
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It might surprise you how much 5000 ton looks when it's in one pile. That stuff is pretty dense, it won't take up as much space as you'd think. Very handy material to have on a farm, that pile would do you for the rest of time and you could always sell a bit off anyway
- Location
- south norfolk
I’d have to sell some.still got a big pile of crushed concrete from when I done my pig shed devolopment 7 years ago.I don’t know how the building trade will cope as most of it will go to these projects.
nick…
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
@hoff135 i feel your pain. We are being bombarded on all sides by these developments. Got 2 huge windfarms planned on both sides of us, the pylon line straight through the middle, already an underground cable and letters in yesterday for another underground cable! ( it’s from another windfarm to a substation so they got told to feck off!)
it is very stressful and it is taking its toll on people. I almost wish I didn’t care about all that’s going and that it didn’t bother us mentally but you have have to stand up for what you think is right and try to fight it.
Most people are completely oblivious to what is going on around them and couldn’t care less.
it is very stressful and it is taking its toll on people. I almost wish I didn’t care about all that’s going and that it didn’t bother us mentally but you have have to stand up for what you think is right and try to fight it.
Most people are completely oblivious to what is going on around them and couldn’t care less.
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
They won’t want the power if they’re going nuclear.
or it’s probably just to say that they use green energy
There will be nothing in the Highlands left shortly. What's worse is ssen are a local company, based in Inverness I believe, treating their own communities like dirt
- Location
- sw scotland
We have a new line planned with discussion ongoing from the start. They definitely need planning permission and your agent should be on the case regarding the access route. You will be compensated for the awkward triangles and if you don't want the rock then they have to take it away. It will have a value so would cost them nothing. You shouldn't be organising any of that.
If unhappy speak to the neighbours and get a new agent.
Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
My wife worked in the department, she seen a Scottish government plan to depopulate the highlands and use it for renewables. Couldn’t believe it to be honest until someone else in a completely different line of work seen the same plan!
Yet they tell us this will encourage people to stay or move to the area! My future plans for building on my own ground will be wiped off the map
- Location
- south norfolk
Had a meeting with NG agents last week.as much as I don’t want any of it I think it will go ahead.we did manage to move some pylons to suit us and agents seem to be helping rather than hindering.instead of pylons being in fields we have got them hopefully moved to the edge of fields.they should be 300 metres apart at 50m tall but they can be moved to an absolute maximum distance of 425m but pylon will then be60m tall.
nick…
- Location
- south norfolk
I really sympathise with you and know what you’re going through.we are just being bullied as land owners and not many local people seem bothered.a neighbouring farmer told me couple weeks ago it was coming so I’ll have to accept it and I thanked him for his support.he will be closer to them than me.other neighbouring farmers have been very quiet about it all and I’ve heard nothing from any of them which I think is very dissapointing.at the end of the day all we can do is be a pain n their arses.in local paper today one headline reads,labour to push through pylons which don’t help either.we have massive support from local government and many mp’s but I’m not holding my breath
nick…
Yes it will get worse under labour, they are hell bent on using the countryside to sell what they claim will be cheap electricity to their voters in the cities. The claim it will be cheap is a con, those with in the renewable sector have even being saying bills will have to rise to pay for all this.
My only hope is it can be delayed long enough for the whole net zero scam to come crashing down, which it eventually will but it will probably be too late for many
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Highland clearances all over again, I think our "ruling classes" all parties included (and the leaders of the civil services, non governmental bodies and charities) seem to walk over the cares/concerns and opinions of the people.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Kier Starmer has said in the past that what Labour is doing in Wales, they will do to the whole of the UK, so watch out!