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National Grid urged to reconsider pylons consultation

National Grid has been urged to rethink its consultation on plans to build pylons from Avonmouth in Bristol to Hinkley Point in west Somerset.

The advice has come from the Infrastructure Planning Commission, the body that will ultimately decide if the 151ft (46m) pylons can be erected.

It advised National Grid to explain why running the cables underground or in the Bristol Channel is not be possible.

The energy company has said a full proposal will not be ready until 2011.



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