The cable trench could be coming near you!
It’s 22 miles long and up to 213 feet wide. Its construction will be a major civil engineering project taking five years to complete.
Landfall is between Barton and Milford. The excavation runs through the New Forest National Park, under the River Avon and into Dorset via Hurn Forest and St Leonards to a new substation in West Moors. It will mean mass tree felling, impact on environmentally protected areas, hedgerows, rivers and the landscape.
The public meeting will be chaired by Roy Pointer, Chair of the Poole and Christchurch Bays’ Association. Speakers are Bill Hoodless, PCBA; Margaret Phipps, Hurn Parish Councillor; John Sharpe, electrical engineer. Christchurch MP, Chris Chope hopes to attend. There will also be council officers from the planning departments of Hampshire and the New Forest. A Q&A session will be held. The meeting will be held in West Parley Memorial Hall, starting at 7pm.
For further information visit http://www.saveourdorsetseaside.co.uk
