MP challenges 'scarring of our landscape'

VICTORIA ATKINS VOWS TO FIGHT AGAINST NATIONAL GRID PYLON PLANS

- BY OLIVER CASTLE Local Democracy Reporter

AN MP has vowed to fight against the construction of pylons in the county. Victoria Atkins said the plans by National Grid to build pylons and substations in the Lincolnshire Wolds would 'scar' the landscape.

Ms Atkins spoke to the Local Democracy Reporting Service a year after the Conservatives faced a significant defeat to Labour in the general election and outlined what she believes needs to be done to regain people's support for her party.

She said: "The biggest campaign alongside the family farm tax and stopping that is of course our campaign to fight the pylons and the industrial substations that this government wants to scar our East Coast with in the coming years.

"We are so lucky to have this very undeveloped landscape both rich in beauty and rich in the quality of the land that is used to grow the food that feeds us all.

"We're very proud in our corner of Lincolnshire of being very agricultural and being able to contribute so much to the nation.

"But we can't do that if our landscape is scarred with pylons and industrial substations." Ms Atkins criticised the plans and said they would 'overwhelm' the rural landscape.