Great Wheatley Road - Solar Farm
Applicant / operator: Aura Power Solar UK Limited. Record drawn from the DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database extract. Status and capacity are as published in that source.
Progress track
- Passedproposed
- Passedin planning
- Passedapproved
- Nowunder construction
- Aheadoperational
What it means
This is a public planning-database record, not a live operational feed from the site. Capacity is installed or proposed electrical capacity as published (MWelec). Coordinates are converted from British National Grid where available; confidence is labelled.
- Technology
- Solar
- Developer / applicant
- Aura Power Solar UK Limited
- Coordinates
- 51.5813, 0.5976
- Extract
- 2026-09-16
Location
1 pin
- Operational
- Construction
- Approved
- In planning
- Proposed
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Further reading
Links to dig deeper. We only store the REPD fields above today — these are curated search/official links, not scraped pages. Richer application URLs will land here when we add them to the warehouse.
- Planning Data (England) · 22/00175/FUL↗
Official MHCLG open data. If coverage exists, look for documentation-url / application-url in the JSON pointing at the council portal (OGL v3.0).
- Browse Planning Data map↗
National planning data platform — coverage still rolling out across English LPAs.
- Web search · planning 22/00175/FUL↗
Tier 3 fallback when no stored portal URL yet — local authority portals vary (Idox / Northgate).
- Rochford planning register↗
Find the authority’s planning search page (Idox simpleSearch / Northgate patterns differ by council).
- National Infrastructure (Planning Inspectorate)↗
For Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (DCO) in England & Wales — search by project name if this site is above local-authority thresholds.
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database↗
Source extract for this record (Open Government Licence).
- Live GB carbon intensity (NESO)↗
National half-hourly intensity — not site-specific.
- GEM.wiki search: Great Wheatley Road - Solar Farm↗
Optional further reading. Wiki text is CC BY-NC-SA — we link, we do not copy.
- OpenStreetMap around SS6 7AL↗
Map context for the postcode area.
- More about “Great Wheatley Road - Solar Farm”↗
General search — verify against official sources.
- Applicant / operator: Aura Power Solar UK Limited↗
Company or applicant name as published in REPD.
Source: DESNZ REPD (OGL v3.0) · Source updated 2026-06-17 · We checked 2026-09-16T15:45:16.204978000Z · As of 2026-09-16