Our public consultation

Public consultation

New overhead lines of 132kV, and other overhead lines associated with a devolved generation station, are classed as a Development of National Significance (DNS) in Wales. This means that decisions are made by Welsh Ministers, and developers must submit consent application to Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW). 

Following the first round of public consultation, we will carefully consider all feedback received, along with reports from our environmental and technical surveys. 

We will publish a report summarising the feedback received in this round of consultation and how this has influenced our proposals. We will then carry out a detailed Environmental Impact Assessment and hold further public consultation, so that people can give us their views on the detailed route alignment including locations for pylons, access routes and working areas.

Come and see us

During our recent public consultation, we held 5 in person events and 3 online webinars where you could come to find out more, and ask questions of the project team. 

These events were held at the following locations: 

• Thursday 23 March, 2pm to 7:30pm – Montgomery Pavilion, Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, LD2 3SY
• Saturday 25 March, 11am to 4pm – Llandeilo Fawr Civic Hall, 17 Cresent Road, Llandeilo Sa19 6HW
• Tuesday 28 March, 2pm to 7:30pm – Penybont District Community Centre, Penybont, nr Llandrindod Wells LD1 5UA
• Wednesday 29 March, 2 PM to 7:30pm  - Llandovery Rugby Club, Church Bank, Llandyfaelog, Llandovery SA20 0BA
• Thursday 30 March, 2pm to 7:30pm – Llandyfaelog Community Hall, Carmarthenshire SA17 5PA

We also held online webinars followed by live Q&A sessions on the followings dates:

• Wednesday 12 April, 6pm to 7pm
• Thursday 13 April, 10.30am to 11.30am
• Tuesday 18 April, 2pm to 3pm

What are we consulting on?

Our consultation, which ran from Monday 06 March 2023 to Friday 28 April 2023, has now closed. 

In this first round of consultation, we sought your views on our preferred overhead line route and anything else you would like use to consider when planning where the pylons should go.

Next steps