ELECTRICITY poles are to be taken down in the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty as part of a £137,000 project to restore the landscape to its original beauty.
Electricity North West will remove six overhead poles and 500 metres of 11kV electricity cable that runs adjacent to Park Road between Milnthorpe and Arnside, and replace it with new underground equipment.
Work is due to start at the end of February when engineers will drill under the bed of the River Bela and run new underground cable beneath it.
The work is part of the company’s five-year, £5.4m project to move the most visually-intrusive electricity lines underground within the North West’s National Parks and AONBs.
David Askew, of the Arnside and Silverdale AONB, said: “The poles impede views from the main road into what is a very special environment, across the Kent Estuary to Whitbarrow and the Lake District and we’re sure residents and tourists will be delighted to see the original landscapes restored.”
The project is expected to take three months.
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