Power plant · West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Avondale Nurseries, Spa Lane - Battery Energy Storage
Avondale Nurseries, Spa Lane - Battery Energy Storage is a permitted battery storage plant in West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, with 320 MW of capacity, operated by Sandbrook Capital BES Limited.
Facts
Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | West Lancashire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Avondale Nurseries, Spa Lane, Lathom, Ormskirk, L40 6JG | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (planning permission granted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 23 Jul 2025 (permit 2024/1053/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by West Lancashire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 13 Dec 2024 (reference 2024/1053/FUL, planning authority West Lancashire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 23 Jul 2025 (granted, reference 2024/1053/FUL, planning authority West Lancashire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Sandbrook Capital BES Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 320 MW | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Battery (stand-alone storage) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.5661, -2.8243 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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- Permit granted (planning authority West Lancashire, reference 2024/1053/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority West Lancashire, reference 2024/1053/FUL)
How it compares
Avondale Nurseries, Spa Lane - Battery Energy Storage is the 133rd-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 203rd-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 320 MW is 0.11% of the 278,868 MW of power plants planned, permitted or under construction we hold for the United Kingdom. It is not built yet, so it is ranked among the power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data, apart from the ones running today. Ranks and totals cover the ones that report their capacity.
| Within | Rank | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 133rd of 1,650 | 171,064 MW | 0.19% |
| United Kingdom | 203rd of 2,548 | 278,868 MW | 0.11% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 471st of 5,799 | 656,876 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 348 grid connections (195 operating, 1,737 MW), 321 substations, 17 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halsalls Lodge grid connection | Grid connection | 119 MW | Planned | 0.3 km |
| Washway Farm BESS VAR1 grid connection | Grid connection | 85 MW | Planned | 0.5 km |
| Washway Farm / Kirkby GSP | Substation | — | — | 0.6 km |
| Pilkington Technology Centre grid connection | Grid connection | 2 MW | Operating | 1.0 km |
| Skelmersdale BSP | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Skelmersdale | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328) | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Iron Mountain | Data center | — | — | 21 km |
| Verizon Warrington | Data center | — | — | 22 km |
Operator and place
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- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
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- Cottam2,000 MW
- Walpole Flexible Generation Project2,000 MW
- West Burton2,000 MW
- Eggborough1,960 MW
- Staythorpe1,828 MW
- Fiddler’s Ferry1,510 MW
Data on this page
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- SP Electricity North West, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Electricity North West open data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.