Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)·Page 128·DM 14.3
Policy DM 14: Overhead Electricity Lines
Proposals for overhead electricity lines must avoid landscape-important areas except where demonstrated infeasible, avoid unacceptable impacts on residential amenity, minimise wirescape in urban areas with preference for undergrounding, and comply with ICNIRP guidelines for electromagnetic field exposure.
Proposals for overhead electricity lines will be acceptable where it has been demonstrated all the following criteria are met:
(a) They avoid areas identified for their landscape importance as set out in SP 8 except where it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Council that this is not feasible;
(b) They have no unacceptable impact on residential amenity or other sensitive receptors;
(c) Wirescape within or close to urban areas is kept to a minimum with preference being given to undergrounding services where appropriate; and
(d) They comply with the ICNIRP guidelines for public exposure to electromagnetic fields.
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