Dear Sir/Madam

You will have previously received correspondence from National Grid about its proposals known as Norwich to Tilbury.  Having undertaken extensive public consultation on our proposals, we submitted our application for development consent to the Planning Inspectorate on 29 August 2025. 

I write to notify you, in accordance with section 56 of the Planning Act 2008, that on 26 September 2025 the Planning Inspectorate (on behalf of the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero) accepted for examination an application made by National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (company number 02366977) of National Grid House, Warwick Technology Park, Gallows Hill, Warwick, CV34 6DA (‘the Applicant’) for a Development Consent Order under the Planning Act 2008.

The application is for Norwich to Tilbury (‘the project’) (Application Reference EN020027), a new 400 kilovolt electricity transmission connection of approximately 180 km in overall length from Norwich Main Substation to Tilbury Substation via Bramford Substation, a new EACN Substation and a new Tilbury North Substation.

The application now progresses to the next phase in the Development Consent Order planning process, which is known as the ‘Pre-Examination’ phase. During this phase, you have a set period of time to register with the Planning Inspectorate, should you wish to become an Interested Party by making a Relevant Representation.

As an Interested Party you will be allowed to make representations about the application. This will also ensure that you are informed about the progress of the Examination, (the phase following the Pre-Examination phase, which lasts for up to six months). A Relevant Representation is a person’s or organisation’s detailed comments about the application. The relevant representation should include full details of the issues that the person or organisation want to be considered, including evidence where necessary.

The enclosed notice explains how to make a relevant representation.

We are contacting you because you are either a prescribed consultee under section 42(1)(a) of the 2008 Act or a relevant local authority for the purposes of section 42(1)(b) and (c) of the 2008 Act.  

If you would like to register as an Interested Party, you must do so by making a relevant representation in writing directly to the Planning Inspectorate before the registration period closes at 23:59 on 27 November 2025.

Enclosed with this letter is a copy of the formal section 56 notice published in accordance with sections 56(7) of the 2008 Act and regulation 8 of the 2009 Regulations, details of where on the National Infrastructure Planning website the accepted application (including the Environmental Statement) can be viewed, and a map showing where the project could be sited/ routed. Together, these enclosures constitute notice of the accepted application which we are required to give you in line with section 56(2) of the 2008 Act, regulation 8 of the 2009 Regulations, and regulation 16 of the 2017 Regulations.  

If you have any enquiries in relation to the application and its accompanying documents, plans and maps, please contact National Grid by:

Email: contact@n-t.nationalgrid.com

Post: FREEPOST N TO T (no stamp or further address details are required)

Telephone: 0800 915 2497 (lines are open Monday to Friday 9am – 5:30pm)

Yours faithfully

 

 

Simon Pepper

Project Director

For and on behalf of National Grid Electricity Transmission plc