Over the past couple of weeks and following storms and flooding, residents in Pilling have been experiencing intermittent power cuts.

However, I am aware that some of these issues have been long term, with residents experiencing occasional outages during all seasons.

I have been in touch with Electricity North West, to ask what they are doing to ensure that this is fixed, and they have advised:

We are aware of a transient fault in the area and have been trying very hard to eliminate possible causes. Last week the following work was completed:-

• 4 poles changed
• Abnormality removed from Links at Muffys Platt
• Abnormality removed from Links at Cockers Dyke
• Urgent tree cutting at Cockers Dyke
• Birds nest removed from Tongues Fm GVR
• OI206 removed and maintenance completed at Proctors Fm S/S
• Lambs Ln ABS repaired (LL programme D.Till 00942F2024 running concurrently)
• Network restored to normal running arrangement
• Faulty disc insulator found at Cockers Dyke
•  3 line patrols completed in 2 weeks
• Further tree cutting planned

This circuit is top of our list in South Lakes and we are concerned with the number of trips, so in addition:-

• We have pathfinders out on the circuit (these have already been moved round twice to try and find the fault).
• We have installed linesight on the circuit.
• We are checking protection grading issues internally.