Mark Harper, MP for the Forest of Dean, and Sir Michael Spicer, MP for West Worcestershire have both urged Tewkesbury Borough Councillors to reject National Grid’s application for a Pressure Reduction Installation at Tirley. The Planning Committee are meeting today (February 2nd) to discuss the application. In addition, Harriett Baldwin, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for West Worcestershire has also written to object. The Government, in 2007, already rejected a planning appeal to site one at Corse. The new site, east of Flat Farm at Tirley in Tewkesbury Borough, is not far from the original site at Corse, which is in the Forest of Dean District. Harriett Baldwin said, “It is a decision for Tewkesbury Borough Council, but I have passed on the concerns of local residents in this very rural area about building an industrial installation in open farmland. It does not make sense to install an industrial complex with 12 chimneys 28 feet tall in the middle of this particularly peaceful stretch of rural countryside. Given that the Corse site nearby has already been rejected on appeal to the Secretary of State, on the grounds that National Grid have not looked widely enough for a more suitable site, it is farcical that this planning application is for a site a few fields away. ”