A council has voted to oppose a plan to roll out 37 miles (60km) of electricity pylons across the Derbyshire countryside.

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The value of 4,000 new homes could be damaged if a vast network of pylons is built, a council has warned. National Grid wants ...

Derbyshire County Council has agreed to oppose National Grid’s current plans to roll-out 60km of 50metre high electricity ...

A new line of towering electricity pylons cutting through rural Kent has been outlined by National Grid. But campaigners have warned the series of pylons to connect Kent to offshore wind farms would ...

Government plans to give households near electricity pylons money off their energy bills will be paid for by raising charges ...

A homeowner has sued an energy giant amid claims that its plans for new electricity pylons near his property have reduced its value by £125,000. Matt Greedy from Dunecht, Aberdeenshire, alleges he was ...

Oct 14 (Reuters) - A minimalist Danish design has won a competition to find a new electricity pylon for Britain, to replace the latticed steel transmission towers that have dotted the landscape since ...

(Bloomberg) -- The UK will need to build a backbone of pylons after 2030, running down from northeast Scotland through to northwest England, to transport electricity from new offshore wind farms. The ...

A homeowner has sued an energy giant amid claims that its plans for new electricity pylons near his property have reduced its value by £125,000. Matt Gready from Dunecht, Aberdeenshire, alleges he was ...

The British government will start a campaign to make people warm up to the idea of new transmission towers near their homes as upgrading aging grid infrastructure becomes a choke point in the race to ...

The house and farm of John Stacey, which is the site of a proposed new National Grid electricity pylon route - Copyright AFP HENRY NICHOLLS The house and farm of John ...