Power plant · Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Canon Barns Road - Solar Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storage

Canon Barns Road - Solar Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storage is a cancelled solar power plant in Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Low Carbon Solar Park 5 Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Chelmsford (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Land East And West Of A130, North And South Of Canon Barns Road East Hanningfield Chelmsford, CM3 8HA	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Cancelled (appeal granted, permission expired)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	6 Feb 2023 (permit 21/00394/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Chelmsford)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	22 Feb 2021 (reference 21/00394/FUL, planning authority Chelmsford)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	9 Dec 2021 (refused, reference 21/00394/FUL, planning authority Chelmsford)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	6 Feb 2023 (appeal granted, reference 21/00394/FUL, planning authority Chelmsford)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	6 Feb 2023 (granted, reference 21/00394/FUL, planning authority Chelmsford)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Low Carbon Solar Park 5 Limited (applicant)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	49.9 MW	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Solar Photovoltaics	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Area	86.8 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.6618, 0.5369	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Latest events

Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.

6 Feb 2023Permit granted (appeal granted, planning authority Chelmsford, reference 21/00394/FUL)
6 Feb 2023Permit granted (planning authority Chelmsford, reference 21/00394/FUL)
9 Dec 2021Permit refused (planning authority Chelmsford, reference 21/00394/FUL)
22 Feb 2021Permit applied for (planning authority Chelmsford, reference 21/00394/FUL)

How it compares

Canon Barns Road - Solar Photovoltaic Arrays & Battery Storage is the 305th-largest of 4,035 power plants in England and the 538th-largest of 5,834 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 MW is <0.1% of the 200,500 MW we hold for the United Kingdom. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
England	305th of 4,035	134,434 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	538th of 5,834	200,500 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,762nd of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 50 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 2 transmission lines, 1 AI supercomputer and 1 grid connection, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Imperium 315	Data center	—	—	9.1 km
CityFibre Cabinets	Data center	—	—	13 km
Fujitsu Data Centre	Data center	—	—	27 km
NVIDIA Cambridge-1	AI supercomputer	202 H100e	Operating	30 km
North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement	Transmission line	—	Permitted	41 km
Bramford to Twinstead	Transmission line	—	Permitted	44 km
Tertiary Study grid connection	Grid connection	57 MW	Planned	46 km

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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