Welspool public meeting called by MP in pylon fight

Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will stage a public meeting this month to discuss plans which could see hundreds of huge pylons built through villages in Shropshire and Mid Wales.

Hundreds of residents are being urged to attend the meeting at Welshpool Livestock Market on April 20 to discuss how the plans will affect Mid Wales.

It comes days after National Grid bosses announced they would be holding consultation events across the region to find a potential route for a 400,000 volt cable, using either 46-metre high pylons or by routing the wires underground.

The cable will connect wind farms in Mid Wales to the National Grid.

Plans also include a power station being built in either Abermule, near Newtown, or Cefn Coch, near Llanfair Caereinion.

Mr Davies said: "A lot of people have been wondering why I haven't been able to attend public meetings that have been taking place, especially as it's something that I personally feel very strongly about.

"But because of my commitments in Parliament I haven't and won't be able to attend as many meetings as I would have liked, hence why I've decided to call my own public meeting."

Mr Davies said he had always been opposed to "wind power stations" in the uplands of rural Wales.

"I want people to know how strongly I feel against these proposals and hope the meeting will help me find out what other people in the area think of the plans," he said.