I urge Westmorland Gazette readers to actively support the appeal by Friends of The Lake District to STOP Giant Pylons ruining the Lake District, (Gazette, December 22).

Readers can register their objection on the website www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk or write a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May MP, in order to demonstrate the strength and size of public hostility to the threat of these giant pylons to one of the world’s most attractive areas.

I urge everyone, even whole families, write letters to the Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May MP, who has passed the responsibility for deciding the route for the these giant pylons to The Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). You should write to: The Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa May MP, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA.

On page 20 of the same edition of the Gazette the ‘New submarine is named’ report confirms that Mrs May’s Government is prepared to spend £millions to ensure the UK’s defence. ‘Go back to the drawing board’ is about local councillors pleading for National Grid to reconsider its present plan to build giant pylons.

The Lake District is clearly one of the world’s most attractive areas and so the Government should be urged to spend a fraction of the millions on UK’s defence on ensuring the Lake District and the views of walkers are not ruined by pylons by having the cables put under the sea along the route suggested by the Friends’ campaign announcement.

In order for these pylons to be built, roads will be needed to be widened to transport material needed to build the pylons.

Once a development has been granted, the precedent will have been established to allow other forms of development to nibble away at the edge of the Lake District and so threaten the concept of the whole

Nicholas J Stainforth

Kendal