“As an Elected Member of the Isle of Anglesey County Council, representing the Ward of Canolbarth Mon I wish to register as an interested party in respect of the Examination of the North Wales Connection Project Development Consent Order application.

I object to National Grid’s proposal for constructing a second overhead power lines across Anglesey as I feel it will potentially have significant adverse impacts on visual amenity, the well-being of residents and communities as well as to business interests, particularly tourism businesses which are of vital long term importance to the Island’s economy. I have lived on the island for over 30 years and like the everyone who lives here, or comes to visit, I treasure it’s unique beauty. I feel that the only acceptable solution to connecting the Wylfa Newydd development to the National Grid at Pentir is by an undergrounded cable. Whilst accepting that the construction of such a connection will, in itself, result in significant short-term inconvenience and disruption to residents of, and visitors to Anglesey, this is far outweighed by the longer term benefit of not having a second overhead power-line spanning the length of the Island. The bottom line is that the National Grid has only chosen this option because it is the cheapest but the loss to our precious environment is priceless. ”