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Caroline O'Neill The and Works Act Orders Unit Department for Transport Zone 1/14-18 Great Minster House 33 Horseferry Road SW1P 4DE

Our reference EVS/0995462/034532757.1/JB Your reference TWA/16/APP/04/OBJ/7

12 July 2017

Dear Sirs

Our Client: Western Power (East Midlands) Plc Re: Transport and Works Act 1992(TWA): Application for the high speed rail (London -West Midlands)(Greatmoor Sidings ETC.) Order

We refer to the application for the above named Order and the Inquiry due to be held at 10.00am on Tuesday 18 July.

We confirm, on behalf of Western Power (East Midlands) Plc, that they have agreed to withdraw their objection to the proposed Order, on the basis of assurances that have been provided to them by High Speed Two (HS2) Limited. Those assurances relate to the WPD apparatus which will be affected by the proposed Order (if subsequently granted) and the wider HS2 project.

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