National Grid is consulting local people on two possible route corridors for a new overhead power line between Hinkley Point in Somerset and Seabank, Avonmouth.
Among the information published here you can read more information on the two potential route corridors. You can also read our strategic options report, which explains other options we considered and why we ruled them out.
Stage one of National Grid's consultation on the Hinkley Point C connection project closed at midnight on Friday 22 January. This followed a two-week extension to the original twelve-week consultation period to allow extra time for feedback due to the severe weather.
National Grid will now assess the comments and feedback from the public and statutory consultees and use it, together with a combination of engineering and environmental considerations, to make a decision on a preferred route corridor.
When we announce our preferred route corridor we will publish an interim consultation report which will show how the views of the public have been taken into account in making this decision. This information will be made available on this website and will be sent out to residents and businesses initially invited to our consultation events.
We will then continue to consult and seek views from local communities and landowners towards the development of a draft route alignment (where the pylons could go) within the chosen route corridor whilst also carrying out a detailed Environmental Impact Assessment.
All comments made will be taken into account and will form part of the consultation report that we present to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) when we submit our Development Consent Order application, which is planned to be in summer 2011. If it is accepted, the IPC will aim, from receipt of the application, to make a decision within a year.
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