Campaigners are likely to pack into a village hall when National Grid representatives speak on controversial plans for pylons in Shropshire.

Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, will chair a meeting attended by officials from the firm on June 6 at Montford Village Hall.

It comes after more than 60 people turned out at the venue to discuss the controversial scheme at the annal parish council meeting earlier this month.

Appeal organisers are confident even more people will turn up this time around.

National Grid has put forward proposals on 10 potential routes for pylons running through Mid Wales and Shropshire to connect power lines with potential substations in Powys.

There are currently two proposed venues in Wales for the substations — Abermule and Cefn Coch.

If Abermule is selected as the new site, two of the proposed routes for the pylons will run through the parish of Montford towards Walford Heath.

More than 1,500 protestors from Mid Wales went to a major protest in Cardiff earlier this week opposing the plans, and National Grid is currently running a consultation on where the pylons should be placed.

Shelley Beckett, leader of the Montford Against Pylons group, said: “I think it will be even more people this time. Some haven’t had the opportunity to go to meeting with National Grid officials in attendance.

Hopefully there will be people from other parishes.”

The campaigning group held its inaugural meeting last Friday, where a plan of action was drawn up ahead of the end of the consultation period in three weeks.

“We will be informing people and letting people know what’s going on. We are part of a process of raising awareness — it is not just us,” said Mrs Beckett.

“It is very hard to say if people are filling in the consultation forms at the moment. We are planning to hold a surgery on filling them in.”

She said this will involve passing on relevant e-mail addresses, letting people know who they can write to and what stages there are to the process.

No decision has been made about what route the electricity line will take and National Grid has stressed no decision has been made about whether it would go under or overground.

Montford Parish Council has previously requested an underground route.

By Chris Burn