'Review overhead power lines' call on Anglesey

Islanders prefer an option of an under-sea cable carrying power to Deeside

Campaigners who want new power lines on Anglesey buried under the sea instead of built over land are calling on National Grid to review its plans.

Residents want power from windfarms and the planned new nuclear power plant linked to the grid in this way.

National Grid's preferred option for a second row of pylons across the island would be three times cheaper at £750m.

Anglesey Against Pylons will present a letter to the firm at its stand at the Anglesey Show urging it to reconsider.

The letter reads: "The failure to consider widespread local opinion and the complete disregard and costing of the impact of pylons on vital industries such as tourism, farming and property prices within the community represents a further fundamental breach of the democratic process.

"We call on National Grid to immediately review their proposals and adopt sub sea cables as the preferred route to transmit power to Deeside and beyond."

The route for the pylons will broadly follow the path of existing ones, from the station near Cemaes Bay to a substation at Pentir, Gwynedd.

National Grid has previously ruled out pylons for an area of outstanding natural beauty so cables will run underground and beneath the Menai Strait, but it said they would not run all the way under the sea.

A spokesman said subsea options would carry "unprecedented technical risks".

The final details of the exact route is yet to be determined - the blue line is the current pylon route