Member

Then there is the more fundamental question of fairness. Those residents who have had proximity to pylons for many years were never given compensation. In my view, the new scheme should be extended to include historic pylons, not in a retrospective way—I will not make that argument—but in the interests of fairness across the country. Those residents and communities with pre-existing pylons should benefit equally from a time-limited compensation scheme like that being proposed for new infrastructure. To deny residents that benefit when they have had years of the degrading of their countryside, not by pylons but by the coal industry, is patently unfair and unjust.