Campaigners to hold protest walk around Spalding Marsh substation site

Campaigners who are fighting against a raft of renewable energy applications will be holding a protest walk in the coming days.

LAND (Lincolnshire Against Needless Destruction) and No Pylons Lincolnshire will be supporting a national day of protest tomorrow (Sunday, June 8), with a walk around a site earmarked for a National Grid substation and infrastructure at Welland House Farm, Marsh Road, Spalding Marsh.

The substation forms part of the proposed Grimsby to Walpole project, which looks to install 420 pylons between Grimsby and Walpole, near King’s Lynn.

National Grid is also looking to use this substation as part of a project to transport power 6 million homes in East Leicestershire. A public consultation on this scheme is due to get underway in the summer.

Permission for these applications will not be decided local councillors but by Government ministers.

Protesters are urging people to come along to the event on June 8, which runs from 11am, with banners and flags.