Campaigners fighting plans to route 50-metre high pylons across the Suffolk and Essex countryside have written to King Charles III calling for his support.

The Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons action group wrote the letter to the King asking for him to 'support the need for the Government to properly and fairly consider alternatives to the current scheme'.

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The campaigners are opposed to plans for the 110 miles of pylons, which they have described as 'monstrosities' that will damage the countryside. 

The group's founder Rosie Pearson said she was hopeful the King would be prepared to back an offshore grid to take cables from wind farms, rather than passing them over land.

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She said: “Everyone knows how committed the king is to environment conservation, so we hope he will be able to help us in some way.

"We are aware he doesn’t intervene in political disputes but he may be able to help persuade the government to consider the offshore alternative we as a group have researched and costed.

"Germany, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Ireland have all committed to offshore grids – and it’s high time we did the same.”

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In March, the EADT revealed that residents along the pylons' route would be able to have their say on the plans as part of a review that would include possible offshore routes.

However, the campaigners were concerned a second public consultation about the pylon plans, by National Grid's Electricity System Operator (ESO), had not been cancelled until the results of the review were known.

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The pylons are set to support power lines carrying electricity from wind farms off the East Anglia coast and would line a route running through Suffolk and into Essex past Dedham, Langham and crossing the A12 to connect into the East Anglian Connection substation in Tendring.