National Grid has defended its plans to build 60km of pylons between and Leicestershire, saying that alternative methods would be four times more expensive. The firm has proposed installing a string of pylons between Weston Marsh, near , and Ab Kettleby, East Leicestershire in a bid to upgrade the power network.

It will also build two new substations including one near Corby Glen and the other at Weston Marsh. At a planning committee meeting at South Kesteven District Council on August 28, councillors raised concerns about the impact of the pylons on the landscape and local communities as well as the loss of agricultural land – and asked why the new cables cannot be underground instead.

said its plan would cost £597.8 million, while it would cost £2,911.7 million for AC (alternating curr

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