Walk around Weston Marsh to fight against National Grid plans for a substation

People fighting against energy projects near their homes took part in a protest walk.

LAND (Lincolnshire Against Needless Destruction) and No Pylons Lincolnshire supported a national protest day with the walk around the Weston Marsh site which could soon be ripped up to make way for two substations.

Councillors joined people who are fighting against the plans and those who live near the site on the walk.

Andrew Malkin, spokesman for LAND, said: “We were pleased with the turnout considering there were lots of other events on.

“MP Sir John Hayes attended along with councillors Laura Eldridge, Andrew Woolf and Anthony Casson, Rob Gibson and Thomas Sneath.

“Walkers were able to see the probable site of the planned 40-acre Weston Marsh substation and get a better idea of the pylons and cables which would connect to it.

“It brought home to many how incongruous the planned industrialisation would be in such a rural scene, and how damaging to Grade 1 land, currently growing crops.

“It strengthened the resolve to resist these plans every step of the way in favour of viable and less-damaging alternatives.”