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Tue, 10 Sep, 23:42 (3 days ago)
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Dear All
It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you that National Grid
are proceeding with their plans to install cables in the trackbed of the
defunct Woodhead railway line east of the Woodhead Tunnels at Dunford
Bridge. This is part of their £500 Million Visual Impact Provision which
intends to remove pylons which have stood for over 50 years and have
long since been accepted as a feature of our rural landscape and
reminder of our industrial heritage.
You will no doubt be aware that Grand Northern are developing a proposal
to re-open the Woodhead line as a Zero Emissions Electrified Railway
combining rolling freight highway and a fast pax rail link over the
Pennines, between the conurbations of Greater Manchester and Sheffield
see www.grandnorthern.co.uk. Clearly, since the route has already been
excavated, planning consent will be infinitely easier than if entirely
new trans-Pennine infrastructure were to be constructed.
Details of the plans are given below. I hope that I can count on you to
register your objection to this obscene waste of public money by
responding accordingly to Barnsley Council Development Control &
Development Management <DevelopmentControl@barnsley.g
Best regards
Julian Newton BEng(HONS)
Chief Executive Officer
Grand Northern Group Limited
www.grandnorthern.co.uk
It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you that National Grid
are proceeding with their plans to install cables in the trackbed of the
defunct Woodhead railway line east of the Woodhead Tunnels at Dunford
Bridge. This is part of their £500 Million Visual Impact Provision which
intends to remove pylons which have stood for over 50 years and have
long since been accepted as a feature of our rural landscape and
reminder of our industrial heritage.
You will no doubt be aware that Grand Northern are developing a proposal
to re-open the Woodhead line as a Zero Emissions Electrified Railway
combining rolling freight highway and a fast pax rail link over the
Pennines, between the conurbations of Greater Manchester and Sheffield
see www.grandnorthern.co.uk. Clearly, since the route has already been
excavated, planning consent will be infinitely easier than if entirely
new trans-Pennine infrastructure were to be constructed.
Details of the plans are given below. I hope that I can count on you to
register your objection to this obscene waste of public money by
responding accordingly to Barnsley Council Development Control &
Development Management <DevelopmentControl@barnsley.g
Best regards
Julian Newton BEng(HONS)
Chief Executive Officer
Grand Northern Group Limited
www.grandnorthern.co.uk
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