Latest plans for Brechfa Forest Connection Project announced

Copies of the maps are now available here and at the Customer Service Centre on Spilman Street in Carmarthen.

Local people will have the opportunity to share their views on the proposals during public consultation in the coming weeks.

Andrew Hubbold, who works on the project team at Western Power Distribution (WPD), said; “We’ve worked hard to use what we learned in 2013 to develop the most suitable route corridors for the new line.  We really valued everything that local representatives shared with us during the summer and used much of this to narrow down the corridor options and choose the best ones for the project.”

The route corridors are being announced slightly later than originally planned as part of WPD’s commitment to ensuring that the route corridors are the most suitable for the project. Andrew said; "It’s really important to us to be sure that we are putting forward the best possible plan for this connection. In this case that means we’ve had to take a little longer than originally planned to review the information we gathered last year before deciding on preferred route corridors.

“Now that we have chosen these preferred route corridors the next step for us is to identify the most suitable paths, known as ‘alignments’, through these corridors. We will then take our proposals out to local people so that they will have a chance to make their voices heard during consultation.  What they tell us will help us develop our plans.”

Carmarthenshire residents will then have another chance to have their say during formal consultation in September 2014 before WPD puts its application before the Planning Inspectorate at the end of 2014.