Actions YOU can take

You have until 16 June to make your views known to National Grid - and here's how you can do it:
1. Fill in the Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action group SURVEY: click here - before 14 June
2. The National Grid consultation questionnaire - before 16 June
Details on both below.
3.  The PETITION is still live - please sign and share. Click here.
(For all other actions e.g posters, petition, MPs email addresses etc, scroll down)
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Click here to fill in the Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action group survey
Fill in our SURVEY 
Click here 
The Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action group survey asks the questions National Grid is not asking and allows us to capture the public mood so that we can counter their biased survey.    
  • We need as many people as possible to fill in as much as they can of this survey.   More data = more power to our elbow.   ​
  • Please share this.
  • ​Deadline 14 June (so that we have time to collate responses before 16 June.)
TOP TIPS for how to fill in National Grid's consultation!
Beware of leading questions in the National Grid consultation questionnaire.
Click here for our TOP TIPS for how best to respond.
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Click here to sign the petition
Please email:  ​secretary.state@beis.gov.uk & handsg@parliament.uk
To the Right Honourable Kwasi Kwarteng MP and Greg Hands MP,
"Will you support an strategic offshore grid which will save consumers around £6billion and bring environmental and social benefits? The piecemeal approach penalises consumers and is environmentally destructive.  I support Sir Bernard Jenkin's OffSET taskforce and the Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action group."
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Share share share!
Please tell all your friends, neighbours, colleagues about the pylons and about this group.  
For posters: 
​Click here for window posters;
Click here for portrait black & white;
Click here for portrait colour (this is a good one for a t-shirt);
Click here for landscape banner.
Click here for A3 posters.
For Facebook: click here.
Flyers
For mini-flyers: click here.
​For a Powerpoint flyer you can adapt:  click here.

Make noise on social media:
​Follow National Grid on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook

Comment, retweet, reply as often as possible. 
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​Use #EastAngliaGreenWASHING #PeoplevsPylons
​Historic England.  Please email and ask them to reject this proposal because of the damage it will do to East Anglia's historic landscapes.
Email Natural England
Please email consultations@naturalengland.org.uk
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Let them know what wildlife & plants are in the path of the pylon corridor that will be affected, as well as woodland and uninterrupted views of the countryside.

They want as many complaints as possible so that when they are consulted, they are ahead of the game
Advertising standards - lodge a complaint
Consider making an Advertising Standards complaint. National Grid has misled with its consultation documents and information by calling the project Green and by including photos of unspoilt countryside & happy cyclists etc.

Email your MP

Copy in your councillor and your parish council and ask them all to work with neighbouring parish councils/councils. 
​Send the email to your local newspaper!
MP email addresses are as follows:
Possible wording for your email:
"Dear [MP]
I'm alarmed to hear that National Grid is running a consultation proposing 180km of 'lattice framework' pylons between Norwich and Tilbury.   These are the old-fashioned, 50m high, very ugly pylons.    In the Dedham AONB the cables will be buried. 

The consultation does not allow any other options to be considered.  It simply presents a pre-selected route.

I believe that National Grid should first have presented a series of options, with costings set out:
1. Land-based with lattice pylons as presented
2. Under the sea cables (to prevent the blight of what must be thousands of acres of countryside and the loss of millions of trees)
3. Buried cables on other stretches.   It's not just the AONB that is beautiful!
4. T-pylons, as adopted in Somerset for a 38km stretch of pylons.  These are far less obtrusive
5. Following the existing line of pylons

Gunning principles, which are recognised in law, require a consultation to be held when a proposal is still at a formative stage.   This one is clearly not.   It is well advanced and the options above are not even presented for consideration.   In fact, they are not even set out on the consultation website.

Kind regards"