HUNDREDS of landowners along the route of a new high-voltage powerline from Warwick to Stanthorpe could be up for compensation as a result of forced resumptions, it has been revealed.

A plan by Ergon Energy to construct a new 110kV line with concrete poles up to 30 metres high has been released for "community consultation", with the route expected to be hammered out by August next year.

Ergon has said the line will mostly be constructed in its existing powerline easements starting in 2016, but these will need to be doubled in width, potentially affecting homes and other buildings.

But more immediate concerns are held by property owners along an eight-kilometre stretch in the Rosenthal Heights area, who are also raising fears about where the powerline will run.

A Washpool Rd resident, who yesterday spoke to the Daily News asking not to be named, said they believed the proposed line would run directly through one of their sheds and potentially their acreage home of nine years.

"We had a letter from Ergon a few weeks ago and the line shown is definitely on our side of the road, although we were told differently by staff at an information stall in Rose City Shoppingworld," the resident said.

"It's hard to get the story straight and we're meeting with (Southern Downs MP) Lawrence Springborg on Friday, but by our reading of it our property is definitely affected.

"The word is just starting to get around the area and I think a lot of people aren't fully appreciating the scale of this thing.

"The concrete pylons will be the same as the ones they not long ago put in south of Toowoomba."

The resident said they had been told by Ergon that new buffers and those on existing easements would be up to 60 metres wide and voiced other concerns about a downgrading of property rights.

"There are people wanting to build houses and subdivide their land in the future and this line will make it very uncertain and possibly very difficult," they said.

"We bought out here to get away from powerlines - I just don't see why Ergon can't use the existing easements all the way to Stanthorpe, the line won't even supply this area."

The resident also voiced health concerns about exposure to electro-magnetic radiation from high-voltage powerlines, as well as the massive amount of native vegetation and koala habitat which would disappear.

Ergon information distributed to property owners states the new 110kV line is needed for an alternative supply to Stanthorpe when the existing line is turned off for maintenance, along with providing for future population growth on the Granite Belt.

It would run from the Warwick substation on Ogilvie Road through rural areas north of Warwick, before looping to the south past Leslie Dam, and heading to the Granite Belt, with the current line having been built in 1971.

An Ergon spokesman yesterday said if properties are directly affected - as in the provider needing to obtain an easement - they would be negotiated with directly.

"People in this situation are entitled to compensation on a case-by-case basis," the spokesman said.

"For property owners who are not directly affected, as in the case of the proposed corridor being near but not on their property - they are not entitled to compensation. But we will consider their views on the proposed route through the consultation process that is underway.

"If people want clarification about the line route in more detail than is possible on a small map, they should contact the email address or phone numbers listed."

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