Whether it will instruct the developers of the Beauly to Denny power line to underground it in the Stirling area.

Scottish ministers have no power to instruct the developers of the Beauly to Denny power line to underground the line, but recognise the need to reduce the impact of the line in the Stirling area. This is why we chose to impose Condition 19 of the consent upon the developer, requiring a Stirling Visual Mitigation Scheme, specifically for the purpose of mitigating the visual impact at Stirling, in addition to a Stirling Rationalisation Scheme, condition 18, to deal with the cumulative impacts of wirescape in the area.
Following submission of formal proposals from Scottish Power Transmissions (SPT) for the Stirling Visual Mitigation Scheme in March 2011, Scottish Ministers issued a request to Scottish Power Transmission and Stirling Council to work together to re-examine all the options, because ministers are determined that all options, including undergrounding have been, or are fully considered before any subsequent proposals are considered.