Power plant · West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Primrose Hill Farm, Oxford Road - Solar Farm
Primrose Hill Farm, Oxford Road - Solar Farm is a planned power plant in West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, with 24 MW of capacity, operated by Mespil Solar Energy.
Facts
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | West Northamptonshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Primrose Hill Farm A43 Oxford Road, Brackley Hatch, Brackley, NN13 5TX | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Planned (planning application submitted) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 7 May 2025 (reference 2025/2088/MAF, planning authority West Northamptonshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Mespil Solar Energy | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 24 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 | 43.9 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 52.0713, -1.0541 | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
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Primrose Hill Farm, Oxford Road - Solar Farm is the 1,151st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 1,800th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 24 MW is <0.1% of the 300,661 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 | 1,151st of 2,174 | 186,088 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 1,800th of 3,222 | 300,661 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 3,456th of 6,455 | 664,240 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 65 grid connections (23 operating, 185 MW), 48 substations and 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelswell Solar Park grid connection | Grid connection | 4.75 MW | Operating | 12 km |
| Cottisford Primary | Substation | — | — | 12 km |
| Pembridge Farm grid connection | Grid connection | 131 MW | Planned | 16 km |
| Tritax Symmetry Park grid connection | Grid connection | 15 MW | Planned | 16 km |
| nLighten Milton Keynes | Data center | — | — | 16 km |
| Bicester North Primary | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Bicester North BSP | Substation | — | — | 19 km |
| Hellermann Tyton Data | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
| Data center, England (OSM way 460010263) | Data center | — | — | 20 km |
Operator and place
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Data on this page
- DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD). 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.
- Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects. 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.