A senior councillor has called for a tree canopy to form part of a huge new park set to be cultivated in Preston - in order to protect it from the blight of the electricity pylons that will run straight down the middle of it.
A public objection to the Wain Homes estate - which will see the developer sell more than eight acres of land needed for the park to the city council for the nominal price of a pound - outlined similar concerns over youngsters playing in the shadow of powerlines.
City council planning case officer Robert Major said that the masterplan had likely reserved the space surrounding the pylons for a park because it was not otherwise “developable”. However, he added that the facility was intended as a way of connecting the different parts of North West Preston and would have paths running through it that would link to the Guild Wheel and the second planned park, which is earmarked for an area further east and directly south of the M55. Roads would also necessarily have to cut across it at some points, Mr. Major said.
He warned that any trees planted to mitigate the effects of the pylons would have to be of varieties that would not grow too close to the power cables.
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