Apr 6, 2008 · As for pylons being ugly - I'm sure if you asked someone in the middle ages what they thought of all the castles being built they would have told you how ugly they were, and how they ruined the landscape. The problem with pylons is that familiarity breeds contempt.

Nov 8, 2024 · A company wants to build a 97km power line with most of it carried by pylons, but landowners, local politicians and residents want it underground - a way forward is far from clear

Feb 25, 2025 · At first sight, the prospect of 1,000 miles of giant pylons covering the length and breadth of Britain beggars belief. It would be the most intrusive invasion of the nation’s rural landscape since the Second World War. It should be subject to a searching audit and challenge.

Jul 25, 2024 · Despite pylons being around for over a century now, public perception remains divided, but why? The UK Greens are facing nimby allegations again after criticising the government’s plans to build...

Sep 21, 2018 · Pylons were the monumental gateways to Egyptian temples. Naming steel towers that would carry the National Grid transmission lines pylons reflected popular interest in Egyptology at the time. (Hannah, 1979: 116) The National Grid is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century.

Anti-pylon rhetoric from 1928 to the present day accuses pylons of “striding through the landscape", being “a giant latticework intruder", and creating “visual damage" by “scything through the countryside in great ugly swathes". The problem with pylons clearly hasn’t been solved over the National Grid’s near century of existence.

Jul 11, 2021 · Architects and designers know how to make utilitarian objects appear graceful and attractive: there is nothing special about transmission pylons, which means they need to be eternally ugly. Engineers need to embrace the important skills that architects can offer here as esthetics do matter.

Nov 11, 2024 · It is the battle between a corporate company wanting to build a 60 mile line of pylons through the beautiful Towy Valley, and the landowners, local politicians and residents who do not want to see metal monsters marauding across the …

Aug 9, 2024 · Explore the process of fibre installation in rural France, understand your rights as a homeowner, and learn about potential alternatives to pylon-type posts.

Sep 1, 2024 · Ugly pylons are not viable. With regard in the news concerning the proposed new corridors of electricity pylons to be sited all over the country have come about to carry the new supply generated from the wind and solar farms.