Overhead Lines To Be Removed from Snowdonia National Park

Snowdonia National Park (Welsh: Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri) is the largest National Park in Wales. Snowdonia is area of outstanding beauty comprising of a varied landscape which includes mountain scenery, glacial valleys, extensive moorlands, and two coastal estuaries. Now a section of ugly pylons carrying overhead lines are to be removed. The pylons, which have long scarred the views in the National Park, will be removed and replaced with underground cables according to plans unveiled by National Grid, the electricity and gas utility company. 

Snowdonia is not the only area in Wales blighted by the visual impact of pylons and power lines. Although there will always be some technically difficult issues to overcome as well as cost implications. The removal of these eyesores from Snowdonia should herald an ongoing programme in other parts of Wales. It presents an opportunity to protect the natural beauty, wildlife, cultural and environmental heritage of areas of outstanding natural beauty throughout Wales.