Flyer delivered in March to all residents of Little Bromley and all Subcribers of the Village Database

Dear Resident,

You are receiving this email as you provided your email address to members of the village campaign group (POWER) during 2024 for the purpose of keeping up to date with the proposed electricity projects affecting our village.  If you no longer wish to receive emails or would prefer we contact you via a different email address then please email campaignpower3@gmail.com.

Little Bromley and villages across Tendring are threatened by a number of major infrastructure projects proposed by National Grid (NG), Five Estuaries (FE), North Falls (NF) and Tarchon Interconnector. Little Bromley is at the epicentre - all four projects will connect into the proposed new substations near Norman’s Farm on Ardleigh Road requiring land-take of 250+ acres (equivalent to 160+ football pitches) for the substations alone.

Little Bromley will face:

• 100m+ wide cable trenches across fields

• construction of a permanent access road from the centre of Little Bromley to the new substations at Ardleigh with risk to our war memorial

• Location of construction and vehicle compounds and work sites within the village for the construction period duration (likely many years). 

• 400+ HGV movements per day from the A120 towards Little Bromley plus 75m/400T vehicles bringing damaging vibrations affecting house foundations

• Loss of mature trees, 100yr+ old hedgerows, prime agricultural land 

• Widening and straightening of Bentley Road = road closures and travel disruption to daily commutes, school runs and impact on local businesses.  

• Noise, dust pollution and more!

POWER Email

We have already seen consultations from NG, FE and NF which are now with the Planning Inspectorate for consideration but, it isn’t a done deal, there are still opportunities to voice our concerns.  You may now have heard from Tarchon Interconnector (TI) with details of their proposals.  We understand they are looking for a 25 acre local site to build their interconnector using a separate cabling corridor to FE and NF…with land on Chequers Road, Little Bromley under consideration.  TI are holding a non-statutory consultation at the Venture Centre CO11 2JE on Wednesday 19 March 2025 1 – 5pm.  Please attend if you can (or alternatively one of the other dates in Ardleigh, Wix or Harwich).

So…what can you do?

• Keep up-to-date by visiting www.savelittlebromley.co.uk and joining in with a village social event – details to be confirmed

• Help with new village signage before the Little Bromley 10k on 13 April (please register your interest by emailing: campaignpower3@gmail.com).  Children may love to help with this 😊

• Get in touch…

We are looking for someone to assist with our website.  Any help however small will be appreciated.

There are campaign groups country wide…this isn’t just our fight.  Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons (www.pylonseastanglia.co.uk or Facebook https://m.facebook.com/groups/pylonseastanglia is a great resource for information and updates relating to the NG project (N2T - the 180km Norwich to Tilbury electricity transmission line (pylons and underground cables) is the cornerstone to the FE, NF and TI projects - they won’t proceed without N2T).  

Collective pressure gives us a fighting chance.  We have a voice to send a clear message and say ‘NO’.   If we just sit back and do nothing then we can expect damage and destruction to be coming our way from 2027.

There is a BETTER SOLUTION, a CHEAPER SOLUTION which is fit for the future…an OFFSHORE GRID.
 
Join us we have the POWER to stop this!

Best wishes on behalf of POWER…thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing from you 😊