Powered land · New Forest, England
154 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, New Forest
A candidate site of 154 ha in New Forest, England: one HM Land Registry INSPIRE title polygon. It lies 1.71 km from the Somerford Primary substation (Southern Electric Power Distribution plc), which has 6.72 MVA of demand headroom and none for generation.
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 154 ha (the area of its INSPIRE polygon, the indicative extent of a registered title) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| INSPIRE polygon | 57364069 (its id in the HM Land Registry INSPIRE Index Polygons) | HM Land Registry INSPIRE Index Polygons · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Location | New Forest, England | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 50.7604, -1.7221 (a point on the polygon) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Somerford Primary (1.71 km, polygon edge to the substation's mapped point) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 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 | 6.72 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 & substation fault level) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
The polygon shows where the title lies, not its legal extent: HM Land Registry notes that the extent of a title can only be established from the title plan.
How it compares
#60 of 121 sites in New Forest and #2,072 of 6,229 in the United Kingdom by site score. Larger than 89% of the sites in New Forest. Closer to its substation than 24% of them.
| Part | This site | Points | Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 154 ha | 30 | 30 |
| Distance to the substation | 1.71 km | 4.4 | 30 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 6.72 MVA | 6.7 | 40 |
| Site score | 41 | 100 |
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Nearby sites on the same substation
6 other sites have Somerford Primary as nearest substation and would compete for its capacity.
- 217 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole0.66 km · score 57
- 32 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole0.37 km · score 39
- 61 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.87 km · score 25
- 55 ha site near Somerford Primary substation, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.88 km · score 23
- 1.06 ha brownfield site at Hoburne Caravan Park Hoburne Lane, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.04 km · score 21
- 1.42 ha brownfield site at HM Coastguard Training Centre Seaway Avenue, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.51 km · score 14
- Sites in New Forest125
- Sites in the United Kingdom6,352
- Somerford Primarysubstation
Data on this page
- This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. HM Land Registry INSPIRE Index Polygons, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- 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.
- Rare Context. Rare Context powered-land sites, ODbL 1.0.
- SSEN Distribution. SSEN Distribution data portal, CC BY 4.0.