A North Yorkshire farmer has failed to prevent National Grid contractors from gaining access to her farm to erect a string of electricity pylons. The Appeal Court has rejected her application to appeal against a decision allowing National Grid to enter her land.
Widow Rosalind Craven, 61, of Home Farm, Tollerton Road, Huby Burn, Huby, near Easingwold, had confronted representatives from the company in September 2002 and barred them from her property.
However, the High Court subsequently ruled that the electricity company had a legal right to go onto the land. The court gave National Grid permission to access the property and to begin work on three 46m tall pylons, which form part of a controversial plan to build a pylon line from Teesside to Shipton-by-Beningbrough.
Mrs Craven sought permission to challenge that decision on the ground that National Grid had not given those landowners affected by the scheme proper notice its intention to build the pylons.
But dismissing the application, Brooke LJ said that notices had been served on landowners in compliance with statutory regulations.
National Grid Co plc v Craven Court of Appeal (Brooke LJ) 30 April 2003.
References: PLS News 2/5/03
