HOUSEHOLDS and a quay are out of power this afternoon following an unplanned power cut. 

Energy provider SSEN said 41 postcodes and 408 households have been affected by the fault in Lymington. 

It’s expected that the power outage, first reported at around 2pm on Sunday, April 13, will be fixed by 8pm. 

SSEN’s spokesman said an engineer is on the way. 

A spokesman from the energy company said: "The cause of this power cut is a fault on our underground network.    

"This is the most type of fault we see and our teams are very experienced in dealing with these issues.   

"In most cases, our engineers are able to get your power back on by simply replacing a fuse at the local station, however if the fault is severe, this may take us longer to fix."