Our group’s submissions & reports

2026

The Examination of the DCO is now under way. Our written submissions to the Planning Inspectorate are on their Norwich to Tilbury web page.  Our documents submitted at Registration are found here.

2025

Our new, in-depth, analysis and accompanying report, applies Treasury Green Book principles to compare pylons with HVDC undergrounding. Accompanied by OCSS Review and Modelling Requests.

2024

Let’s be Leaders not Laggards:  read here

Pylons are not cheap:  read here.

STATUTORY CONSULTATION

Here are our submissions to the Statutory Consultation (end date, 26 July).   You can see them by clicking on the button:

Statutory Consultation

Full list of 2024 submissions here:

Covering letter

General

• Legal opinion by Lord Charles Banner KC
• Alternatives to Norwich to Tilbury
• Consideration of our submissions by NGET
• Consultation deficiencies

Harms

• Heritage, NGET’s approach. By Fuller Long
• Heritage Survey: click here for survey results and click here for map
• Archaeology
• Landscapes NGET’s approach. By The Landscape Partnership
• For landscapes MAPS set by Nigel Cowlin Ltd, click here
• Viewpoints submitted by supporters; click here
• Environmental Impact
• Soils By David Dent
• Flood risk
• Business impact
• Human impact
• Public Rights of Way

2023

All of our reports submitted to National Grid’s second non-statutory consultation (August 2023) can be found by clicking HERE.

They include the following papers:

• Covering letter
• Charles Banner KC legal opinion about second non-statutory consultation
  • Charles Banner KC legal opinion about Treasury Green Book
  • Backcheck
  • Design Development Report
  • Need
  • Bird hotspots
  • Priority habitats
  • Bird strikes
  • Landscapes
  • Heritage and culture
  • Feedback
  • Consultation strategy
  • Alternatives: integrated offshore grid
  • ESNP survey

You can click here to read our report ‘Second industrial revolution:  you’re next’.

2022

Our report submitted to National Grid’s first non-statutory consultation (July 2022) can be found by clicking HERE

Our legal opinion submitted alongside the first consultation is HERE.

Here is our survey, 2022:  click here.