The Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons campaign group urges Downing Street frontrunner Liz Truss to weigh in on East Anglia Green project

Campaigners have demanded action from South West Norfolk MP and Downing Street-hopeful Liz Truss over the controversial East Anglia Green project.

The plan will see 50-metre-high pylons built along the A140, running between Bressingham and Roydon, towards its destination at Tilbury, on the Thames estuary.

Other MPs in the Diss Express area – South Norfolk’s Richard Bacon and Central Suffolk and North Ipswich’s Dan Poulter – have already weighed in on the issue by endorsing an undersea cable route as a less-intrusive alternative.

The Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons (ESNP) campaign group has pointed out that, while Ms Truss is busy battling it out with Rishi Sunak to be the next PM, her opposite number has still managed to find time to endorse the undersea cable route.

ESNP spokesman Rosie Pearson said: “We believe it’s high-time Ms Truss nailed her colours to the mast and made clear her position on planned electricity infrastructure in her region.

“She is not only a leadership candidate, she’s also a Norfolk MP.

“Our group and many of our supporters wrote to her in July but none of us have had a response – and that’s very disappointing.

“Rishi Sunak did take time to reply and told us he fully supports an offshore grid.

“We need our next prime minister to get to grips with the electricity infrastructure problems affecting East Anglia so badly.

“It’s not just about the blight of 180km of huge pylons across our area but the excavation of land corridors up to 100 metres wide required every time a single wind farm makes landfall.

“We need Ms Truss to explain why we, in the East of England, are being treated as second-class citizens with a continuation of the piecemeal model that connects each farm individually to the shore.

“Meanwhile, in the north, electricity is being transmitted by a number of offshore cables.”

Earlier this month, Ms Truss voiced her opposition to Deal Farm Biogas, calling on planning authorities to reject the application for a controversial anaerobic digester plant just outside her constituency in Bressingham, south Norfolk.