Useful links
15 July 2025 · Updated: 22 July 2025
Below gives you some idea of how to object to National Grid’s plans.
Write a letter of concern
Send your completed letter to National Grid. Remember to make all, or at least some of, the points outlined below.
- The deadline for submissions is 6 August 2025.
- This can be an informal email, even simply a list of points:
- Loss of prime farmland.
- Local knowledge of wildlife.
- Endangered species (Great Crested newts, barn owls, bats, etc. Also worth mentioning that Dunsby Wood is home to the largest population of Fallow deer in the UK.
- Weak, narrow roads unsuited to construction vehicles.
- Migrating birds flying into the wires.
- Effect on drainage.
- The documented dangers of EMF.
- As long as it is reasoned, not simply “I won't like it” or “It will spoil my view”.
- Email it to National Grid, including your email and full postal address, post it to ‘Freepost WM TO EL’ (no stamp necessary) or respond online at nationalgrid.com/WMEL. The link opens a new email and inserts National Grid’s email address in the ‘To’ section. Alternatively, National Grid’s email address is ‘ContactWMEL@nationalgrid.com’, minus the apostrophes, if you prefer to cut and paste.
Other useful links
- Haconby & Stainfield Pylon Action Group – a Facebook group set up to object to the Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire extension of National Grid’s ‘Great Grid Upgrade’.
- Grimsby to Walpole – if this is built, then Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire will be next on National Grid’s agenda. All we can hope is to have a say in the direction/route it takes.
- Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire – opens the proposed Weston Marsh to East Leicestershire extension of National Grid’s so-called ‘Great Grid Upgrade’. This is the section that affects Haconby and surrounding villages.
- No Pylons Lincolnshire – another Facebook group set up to object to the Grimbsy to Walpole extension.
- Lincolnshire Against Needless Destruction (LAND).
- No Pylons Lincolnshire – a sister site to LAND, with a focus on pylons and their disruptive nature.
- Viking Link – forms a continuous link between the UK and Denmark.