Take an area of outstanding beauty, cover it in pylons and concrete: how can we allow that? | Fiona Gilmore

National Grid's plan for the Suffolk coast is mirrored across the UK. We need an energy policy that protects our heritageEnergy, and its future costs and security, is one of the main issues facing this country, yet it has drawn little attention or interrogation in the general election debate.Our local community faces devastation on a criminal scale, and that is sadly representative of similar cases across the UK. National Grid wishes to build across a vast area of peaceful countryside less than three miles from coastal Aldeburgh and Thorpeness, a thriving tourism destination for ramblers, ornithologists and nature lovers - and to make this a "concrete coast". Continue reading...