Powered land · New Forest, England
1.5 ha brownfield site at Hythe & Dibden War Memorial Hospital, Beaulieu Road, Hythe, New Forest
A brownfield site of 1.5 ha in New Forest, England, on the brownfield land register as previously developed land. It lies 0.98 km from the Butts Ash Primary substation (Southern Electric Power Distribution plc), which has 8.86 MVA of demand headroom and none for generation.
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 1.5 ha (the area its register gives) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Site from | Brownfield land register (England) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Address | Hythe & Dibden War Memorial Hospital, Beaulieu Road, Hythe | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Permitted (permissioned) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Permit date | 3 Aug 2018 (outline-planning-permission, issued by New Forest District Council) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner type | Public (owned-by-a-public-authority) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Register reference | BLR_Hythe_002 (planning authority New Forest District Council) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Register entry | Brownfield site: Hythe & Dibden War Memorial Hospital, Beaulieu Road, Hythe | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | New Forest, England | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.8585, -1.4030 (the register's point for the site) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Butts Ash Primary (0.98 km, register point to the substation's mapped point) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Substation voltage | 33 kV (levels 33, 11 kV) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Substation operator | Southern Electric Power Distribution plc | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 8.86 MVA | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Generation headroom at the substation | 0 MW | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Congestion (offtake) at the substation | None (green on the heat map) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Congestion (feed-in) at the substation | Full (red on the heat map, limited by upstream thermal capacity) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
The register gives a point and an area, not an outline: the distance runs from that point, so the site's edge can be closer to the substation.
How it compares
#102 of 121 sites in New Forest and #4,750 of 6,229 in the United Kingdom by site score. Larger than 2% of the sites in New Forest. Closer to its substation than 65% of them.
| Part | This site | Points | Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 1.5 ha | 0 | 30 |
| Distance to the substation | 0.98 km | 15.3 | 30 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 8.86 MVA | 8.9 | 40 |
| Site score | 24 | 100 |
How the site score works in the United Kingdom · Search sites in New Forest
Nearby sites on the same substation
10 other sites have Butts Ash Primary as nearest substation and would compete for its capacity.
- 121 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest0.74 km · score 58
- 77 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest0.21 km · score 57
- 98 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest0.72 km · score 56
- 144 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest0.91 km · score 55
- 99 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest1.04 km · score 51
- 1,270 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest1.25 km · score 50
- 139 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest1.72 km · score 43
- 113 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest1.74 km · score 43
- 93 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest1.89 km · score 37
- 33 ha site near Butts Ash Primary substation, New Forest1.79 km · score 21
- Sites in New Forest125
- Sites in the United Kingdom6,352
- Butts Ash Primarysubstation
Data on this page
- Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. NESO GIS boundaries for GB DNO licence areas, NESO Open Data Licence.
- Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. ONS Open Geography: Local Authority Districts, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. planning.data.gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Rare Context. Rare Context powered-land sites, ODbL 1.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.