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welcome back, decided that I wanted a north/south strip to augment my easty/westy and had a quote from Eastern Electric 4 years ago to bury 330M and move a transformer for £11k.
That was plus VAT and I was expected to excavate the 3 mete deep trench, myself.
Spent a little of the money on more Avgas to perfect my cross-wind landings!
Grubbing out hedges is not generally a planning matter and if one can show that one has planted more hedging than one grubs out is generally a no-brainer for the Nimbys, HST.
Stik