Power plant · Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom
Hatherton Lodge Farm, Hunsterson Road - Solar Farm
Hatherton Lodge Farm, Hunsterson Road - Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, with 12.5 MW of capacity, operated by Noventum Power 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 | Cheshire East (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Hatherton Lodge Farm,Hunsterson Road, Hatherton, CW5 7RA | 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 | 19 Jun 2025 (permit 24/5074/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 16 Dec 2024 (reference 24/5074/FUL, planning authority Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 19 Jun 2025 (granted, reference 24/5074/FUL, planning authority Cheshire East) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Noventum Power Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 12.5 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 | 53.0239, -2.4586 | 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.
Request researchLatest events
Dated events about this power plant from official notices and registers, newest first. All recent changes.
- Permit granted (planning authority Cheshire East, reference 24/5074/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Cheshire East, reference 24/5074/FUL)
How it compares
Hatherton Lodge Farm, Hunsterson Road - Solar Farm is the 1,405th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,184th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 12.5 MW is <0.1% of the 300,461 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 | 1,405th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,184th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,901st of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 75 grid connections (42 operating, 395 MW), 74 substations, 10 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 1 transmission line, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Central data center, England | Data center | — | — | 13 km |
| Salinae Hydrogen Storage project | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 14 km |
| Keuper Gas Storage Project | Gas storage facility | — | Permitted | 22 km |
| Keuper Underground Gas Storage Facility Material Change 1 | Gas storage facility | — | Planned | 23 km |
| Chelford | Substation | — | — | 29 km |
| Dane Moss Solar PV grid connection | Grid connection | 7.5 MW | Planned | 31 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill grid connection | Grid connection | 1.97 MW | Operating | 32 km |
| Danes Moss Landfill Site 2 grid connection | Grid connection | 2.1 MW | Operating | 32 km |
| S.W. Macclesfield | Substation | — | — | 34 km |
Operator and place
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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.
- 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.