Power plant · West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Downs Road, Curbridge Business Park - Solar Panels
Downs Road, Curbridge Business Park - Solar Panels is a permitted solar power plant in West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 1 MW of capacity, operated by Stewart Milne Timber Systems 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 Oxfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Falcon House, Downs Road, Curbridge Business Park, Witney, OX29 7WJ | 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 | 1 Dec 2021 (permit 21/03367/PN56, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by West Oxfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 11 Oct 2021 (reference 21/03367/PN56, planning authority West Oxfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 1 Dec 2021 (granted, reference 21/03367/PN56, planning authority West Oxfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Stewart Milne Timber Systems Limited (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 1 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 |
| Coordinates | 51.7905, -1.5243 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its operator.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the operator.
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- Permit granted (planning authority West Oxfordshire, reference 21/03367/PN56)
- Permit applied for (planning authority West Oxfordshire, reference 21/03367/PN56)
How it compares
Downs Road, Curbridge Business Park - Solar Panels is the 1,580th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,457th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1 MW is <0.1% of the 279,068 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 | 1,580th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,457th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 5,708th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 153 grid connections (82 operating, 960 MW), 116 substations and 10 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windrush Park Primary | Substation | — | — | 0.7 km |
| 29.9MW EHV PV & BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 62.4 MW | Planned | 2.2 km |
| Witney Town Primary | Substation | — | — | 3.0 km |
| Ducklington Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 18 MW | Planned | 3.1 km |
| Witney BSP | Substation | — | — | 3.4 km |
| Witney Bypass - 150MW BESS grid connection | Grid connection | 160 MW | Planned | 3.8 km |
| University Shared Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 19 km |
| nLighten Swindon | Data center | — | — | 25 km |
| AWS Didcot Data Centre | Data center | — | — | 26 km |
Operator and place
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- Staythorpe1,828 MW
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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.
- 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.