Power plant · Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Parsonage Farm - Solar PV Farm & Battery Storage
Parsonage Farm - Solar PV Farm & Battery Storage is a permitted solar power plant in Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom, with 30 MW of capacity, operated by Manchester Airport Group Plc.
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 | Uttlesford (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Parsonage Farm, Forest Hall Road, Stansted, CM24 8TY | 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 | 29 Jan 2026 (permit UTT/25/1742/FUL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Essex) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 21 Jul 2025 (reference UTT/25/1742/FUL, planning authority Essex) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 29 Jan 2026 (granted, reference UTT/25/1742/FUL, planning authority Essex) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Manchester Airport Group Plc (applicant) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 30 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 | 47.9 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8892, 0.2037 | 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 Essex, reference UTT/25/1742/FUL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Essex, reference UTT/25/1742/FUL)
How it compares
Parsonage Farm - Solar PV Farm & Battery Storage is the 805th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,320th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 30 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 | 805th of 1,650 | 171,264 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,320th of 2,548 | 279,068 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 2,749th of 5,799 | 657,076 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kao Data KLON-02 | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| NVIDIA Cambridge-1 | AI supercomputer | 202 H100e | Operating | 14 km |
| Kao Data KLON-01 | Data center | — | — | 14 km |
| Google Datacentre Waltham Cross | Data center | — | — | 28 km |
| North London (Electricity Line) Reinforcement | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 36 km |
| Tertiary Study grid connection | Grid connection | 57 MW | Planned | 46 km |
| Bramford to Twinstead | Transmission line | — | Permitted | 47 km |
Operator and place
More from Manchester Airport Group Plc
- Stanstead Solar Project14.3 MW · under construction
- Man Airport (Amazon) PV Array grid connection1.6 MW
Other power plants in England
- Drax Power Station Biomass Units2,580 MW
- Ratcliffe-on-Soar2,021 MW
- 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.
- Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, 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.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.