Power plant · Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

Potterne Park Farm, Potterne - Solar Farm

Potterne Park Farm, Potterne - Solar Farm is a permitted solar power plant in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, with 49.9 MW of capacity, operated by Potterne Solar Project Limited.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Wiltshire (coordinates), England	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	S/O Potterne Park Farm, Nr Potterne, Devizes, SN10 5QT	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Permitted (appeal granted)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Permit date	20 Apr 2026 (permit PL/2023/10332, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Application date	20 Dec 2023 (reference PL/2023/10332, planning authority Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	20 Apr 2026 (granted, reference PL/2023/10332, planning authority Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	20 Apr 2026 (appeal granted, reference PL/2023/10332, planning authority Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Decision date	3 Jul 2025 (refused, reference PL/2023/10332, planning authority Wiltshire)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Potterne Solar Project 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	79.8 ha (solar site area)	DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	51.3090, -1.9840	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.

20 Apr 2026Permit granted (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2023/10332)
20 Apr 2026Permit granted (appeal granted, planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2023/10332)
3 Jul 2025Permit refused (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2023/10332)
20 Dec 2023Permit applied for (planning authority Wiltshire, reference PL/2023/10332)

How it compares

Potterne Park Farm, Potterne - Solar Farm is the 454th-largest of 1,650 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 800th-largest of 2,548 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 49.9 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	454th of 1,650	171,264 MW	<0.1%
United Kingdom	800th of 2,548	279,068 MW	<0.1%
All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data	1,897th of 5,799	657,076 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 200 grid connections (124 operating, 1,331 MW), 120 substations, 8 data centers and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Potterne Park Farm grid connection	Grid connection	49.9 MW	Planned	1.1 km
Easterton Primary	Substation	—	—	2.0 km
Blounts Court Farm grid connection	Grid connection	15 MW	Planned	2.3 km
Lower End PV grid connection	Grid connection	4.28 MW	Operating	4.0 km
Devizes Primary	Substation	—	—	4.5 km
Bromham Primary	Substation	—	—	9.7 km
Data center, England (OSM way 996865179)	Data center	—	—	20 km
Ark Data Centres	Data center	—	—	20 km
AWS Swindon Data Centre	Data center	—	—	28 km

Operator and place

Grid connections attached to this power plant

Potterne Park Farm grid connection49.9 MW

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Data on this page

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