Power plant · Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Watling Street, Caddington - Solar Farm
Watling Street, Caddington - Solar Farm is a permitted power plant in Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, with 19.7 MW of capacity, operated by Chiltern Renewables Hockliffe 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 | Central Bedfordshire (coordinates), England | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Address | E/O Watling Street, Adj Horse And Jockey Public House, Caddington, Dunstable, LU6 | 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 | 14 Aug 2025 (permit CB/24/02069/FULL, Town and Country Planning Act, issued by Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Application date | 15 Jul 2024 (reference CB/24/02069/FULL, planning authority Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Decision date | 14 Aug 2025 (granted, reference CB/24/02069/FULL, planning authority Central Bedfordshire) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Chiltern Renewables Hockliffe Limited | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 19.7 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 | 27.2 ha (solar site area) | DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.8602, -0.4788 | 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.
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- Permit granted (planning authority Central Bedfordshire, reference CB/24/02069/FULL)
- Permit applied for (planning authority Central Bedfordshire, reference CB/24/02069/FULL)
How it compares
Watling Street, Caddington - Solar Farm is the 1,281st-largest of 2,174 power plants planned, permitted or under construction in England and the 2,011th-largest of 3,222 in the United Kingdom by capacity; its 19.7 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 | 1,281st of 2,174 | 185,888 MW | <0.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2,011th of 3,222 | 300,461 MW | <0.1% |
| All power plants planned, permitted or under construction in our data | 4,061st of 6,455 | 664,040 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 102 data centers (1 operating, 88 MW), 100 substations, 52 grid connections (27 operating, 295 MW), 1 transmission line 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center, Dunstable (OSM way 526426719) | Data center | — | — | 4.5 km |
| NTT Hemel Hempstead 2 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| NTT Hemel Hempstead 3 | Data center | — | — | 11 km |
| Cokes Lane Primary | Substation | — | — | 22 km |
| Amersham GSP | Substation | — | — | 25 km |
| Generation 99 MW grid connection at Amersham Main | Grid connection | 99 MW | Planned | 25 km |
| Harefield Primary | Substation | — | — | 28 km |
| Harefield Solar grid connection | Grid connection | 30 MW | Planned | 30 km |
| Wapseys Wood grid connection | Grid connection | 2 MW | Operating | 31 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.
- 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.