North Wessex Downs Visual Impact Provision: news Home National Grid Electricity Transmission Network and infrastructure Infrastructure projects North Wessex Downs project Read our latest news, access our latest press releases and learn about events in the community Bromham Community Hub receives the royal treatment 10 Dec 2025 Members of National Grid’s North Wessex Downs VIP project team recently joined more than a hundred local residents and community leaders in Bromham for a very special occasion: the official reopening of the village’s Community Hub by Her Majesty Queen Camilla New underground cables pass the test 2 Dec 2025 The North Wessex Downs Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project has marked another key milestone after the new cables buried underground, which will replace the 4.6 km of overhead electricity line and 13 pylons, successfully passed a series of high-voltage tests. National Grid get into the festival spirit at Devizes Carnival 13 Oct 2025 The end of summer celebrations were in full swing when members of the North Wessex Downs VIP project team lent a hand at Devizes Carnival. Temporary two-week lane closure on A361 15 Sep 2025 Wiltshire Council will be carrying out essential carriageway repairs on the A361, which will require a temporary two-week closure of the southbound carriageway near the North Wessex Downs VIP project site. Green fingered volunteers lend a hand at Bishops Cannings Primary School 4 Sep 2025 Earlier this summer, members of the North Wessex Downs VIP project team were joined by staff from Wiltshire Concrete, Balfour Beatty and National Grid’s internal departments for a day of volunteering at Bishops Cannings Primary School. North Wessex Downs community newsletter: Summer 2025 4 Aug 2025 Our work to transform the natural landscape in the North Wessex Downs. Load More
Bromham Community Hub receives the royal treatment 10 Dec 2025 Members of National Grid’s North Wessex Downs VIP project team recently joined more than a hundred local residents and community leaders in Bromham for a very special occasion: the official reopening of the village’s Community Hub by Her Majesty Queen Camilla
New underground cables pass the test 2 Dec 2025 The North Wessex Downs Visual Impact Provision (VIP) project has marked another key milestone after the new cables buried underground, which will replace the 4.6 km of overhead electricity line and 13 pylons, successfully passed a series of high-voltage tests.
National Grid get into the festival spirit at Devizes Carnival 13 Oct 2025 The end of summer celebrations were in full swing when members of the North Wessex Downs VIP project team lent a hand at Devizes Carnival.
Temporary two-week lane closure on A361 15 Sep 2025 Wiltshire Council will be carrying out essential carriageway repairs on the A361, which will require a temporary two-week closure of the southbound carriageway near the North Wessex Downs VIP project site.
Green fingered volunteers lend a hand at Bishops Cannings Primary School 4 Sep 2025 Earlier this summer, members of the North Wessex Downs VIP project team were joined by staff from Wiltshire Concrete, Balfour Beatty and National Grid’s internal departments for a day of volunteering at Bishops Cannings Primary School.
North Wessex Downs community newsletter: Summer 2025 4 Aug 2025 Our work to transform the natural landscape in the North Wessex Downs.
