Power plant · Rossendale, England, United Kingdom
Paragon Works, Rising Bridge Road - Solar Farm
Paragon Works, Rising Bridge Road - Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Rossendale, England, United Kingdom, with 1 MW of capacity, operated by Locogen.
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 | Rossendale (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Paragon Works, Rising Bridge Road, Haslingden, Accrington, BB5 2SL | 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 | 2 Apr 2025 (permit 2025/0025, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Rossendale) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 29 Jan 2025 (reference 2025/0025, planning authority Rossendale) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 2 Apr 2025 (granted, reference 2025/0025, planning authority Rossendale) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Locogen | 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 |
| Area | 1.44 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 53.7271, -2.3347 | 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 Rossendale, reference 2025/0025)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Rossendale, reference 2025/0025)
How it compares
Paragon Works, Rising Bridge Road - Solar Farm is the 2,080th-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 3,100th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 1 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 | 2,080th of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 3,100th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 6,333rd of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 487 substations, 463 grid connections (255 operating, 2,202 MW), 17 data centers, 2 transmission lines and 1 gas storage facility, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsclough Solar Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 26 MW | Planned | 2.1 km |
| Prinny Hill | Substation | — | — | 2.2 km |
| Grane RD | Substation | — | — | 2.9 km |
| Accrington Campus grid connection | Grid connection | 2.22 MW | Planned | 3.0 km |
| Hyndburn Wind Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 25.1 MW | Operating | 3.3 km |
| Rawtenstall RD | Substation | — | — | 3.8 km |
| Evolution @ Agecroft Commerce Park | Data center | — | — | 24 km |
| Asanti Manchester | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| Joule House | Data center | — | — | 29 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.