do live near pylons or might be tempted to?

These are cancer causing. Both me and the lady I purchased my previous house from developed breast cancer. There was a pylon nearby and the neighbour across the road mentioned this after my diagnosis.

Them poles they have erected are bad enough (friend has one slap bang in the middle of her drive) so a big no from me.

A massive no from me

My parents have a pylon in their garden on a normal housing estate. My dad is 98 mum 89 and lived there for forty years . Definitely not done them any harm .

People are cautious about pylons but think of the mobile phones we carry around now, some ladies stuff them in their bras or people go to sleep with them on their pillows.

Lilyflower

Put the cables underground.

That was done, where I live.

That’s horrendously expensive.

Put the cables underground.

No, I'm would not want to look at a pylon. Nor a wind turbine. Nor a field of solar panels.

I love our beautiful countryside as it is and do not wish well those who would desecrate it.

When I lived in London we were near pylons and they didn't bother me at all, but I was only a child. The biggest problem was resisting the compulsion to climb regardless of the Keep Off, Danger of Death signs.

We went to view what seemed to be a very nice house but when we got there found there was a pylon in the garden. Not for us.

There is national grid to take water pipes, telephone and gas pipes. Is it really beyond the ingenuity of "man" to put them all in the same underground tunnel? There are amazing tunneling machines for trains. I really wonder at the mentality of accountants who approve the costings of these major infrastructure investments. Why should we be lowered to the lowest common denominator.

We dismissed several houses because of the proximity to pylons when we were looking to buy in 1981 and again in 1985. We moved one final time and again we made sure there were no electricity pylons. There was some concerns about the effect on your health due to being too close to them

One of the properties we lived in had a pylon in the next door garden so very close (the owner of the house used to joke that it was just a go-cart when he threw it out).
This was in the heart of Birmingham so no views to spoil - the wires did buzz in rainy and foggy weather.
We had no problems selling the house but strangely our next home had an electric sub station next door.

Greyduster

I wouldn’t but purely for aesthetic reasons. A few years ago, however, there was a lot of concern about an increase in incidence of childhood leukaemia in areas where there were pylons.
This from a Government report:
“There are a number of studies showing a possible link between exposure to magnetic fields in the home (and/or living close to high voltage power lines) and a small excess of childhood leukaemia.
“It is estimated that 2 to 5 cases from the total of around 500 cases of childhood leukaemia per year in the UK could be attributable to magnetic fields.
“This number is based on the assumption that exposure has to be above a certain threshold before there could be a health effect. The overall evidence, however, is not strong enough to draw a firm conclusion that magnetic fields cause childhood leukaemia”.
I’m sure that would be enough in itself to put people with young families off.

Yes there were various news items over the years about this, I remember that there was a pretty definite statistical link to childhood illness: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC558197/ This is just one of the articles, I chose it because the Abstract is concise and clear.

However this next article suggests that the risk reduced after the 1980's for unknown reasons:
www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/stories/research-story-power-line-and-childhood-leukaemia/

Either way I don't think parents would be willing to take the risk for the sums of money that it is being suggested could be offered.

No.
And doesnt help that I know someone who lives near them[chose to] and then got health problems.

Nandalot, I assume you're talking about the appalling and recently approved plans for solar farms stretching roughly from the Trent at Gainsborough to wards Marton, Fillingham and Sturton? There are other plans in the pipeline for further atrocities in the South Hykeham/Waddington areas which will no doubt be railroaded through to suit the agenda of the rabid greenies who currently seem to control everything.

It makes me weep to see the desecration of the lovely countryside where I grew up and roamed freely as a child/teenager and to know that future generations will never have that simple pleasure.

While I spend half of my life near Lincoln, the other 50% of my time is spent near Conisbrough where there is currently a bitter battle raging between local residents and the companies who want to cover this beautiful bit of South Yorkshire with 400,000 glass panels. The picture shows the current view from my partner's back yard which, if the residents don't win, will be a sea of glass forever.

(Sorry, OP. I didn't intend to stray so far off topic but this is a subject close to my heart).

Much as I try I can find nothing pleasant about the look of a pylon. I’d not choose to live with one within near sight. Our home backs onto a small river with a man made flood plain heading away from the other bank. I’ve no idea if it would be an acceptable site and can only but hope not. If one arrived we’d not move, health precludes it, and would make the best of it we could while regretting the loss of a pleasant open space.

I would never live near pylons for the same reason as you rascal

Am not sure if is the danger it might pose to my health, am not even sure if this has been scientifically proved, but I just think they are massively ugly and wish that in this day and age we could use something a bit less brutalist.

Scribbles, this is an image of the current solar farm planning applications near Lincoln, most of them on excellent farming land.

I remember years ago that families who lived near pylons died eventually from cancer. I don't know if this was a coincidence or not. I would never choose to live near pylons.

I'd rather a pylon or two than the 400,000 solar panels proposed for Conisbrough Parks.

No choice here. You can either see a couple of wind farms, an array of pylons or there is a planning application for one or the other. What about battery storage? Large ones planned for here.

The joy of living in the countryside and nothing off my electric bill yet

If they have strong magnetic fields would they affect pacemakers?

Written in the 1930s