Powered land · South Oxfordshire, England
59 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire
A candidate site of 58.7 ha in South Oxfordshire, England: one HM Land Registry INSPIRE title polygon. It touches the Nuffield Primary substation (Southern Electric Power Distribution plc), which has 1.88 MVA of demand headroom and none for generation: most such sites are the station's own land.
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 58.7 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 | 30431264 (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 |
| National Landscape (AONB) | Chilterns (100% of the site; Natural England; since 1 Mar 1990) | planning.data.gov.uk · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Not designated | ancient woodland, conservation area, green belt, national park, Ramsar wetland, registered park and garden, scheduled monument, Special Area of Conservation (Natura 2000), Special Protection Area (Natura 2000), Site of Special Scientific Interest, World Heritage Site buffer zone and World Heritage Site (checked against the published areas) | planning.data.gov.uk · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Location | South Oxfordshire, England | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.5772, -1.0140 (a point on the polygon) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Nuffield Primary (0 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 | 1.88 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 & upstream fault level constraint) | SSEN Distribution data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Water stress | High (40–80%) (score 3.4 of 5, withdrawals 52.2% of renewable supply) | WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 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
Ranked apart: it touches its substation, and most sites that do are the station's own land. Its score would be 48.
| Part | This site | Points | Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 58.7 ha | 16.1 | 30 |
| Distance to the substation | 0 km | 30 | 30 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 1.88 MVA | 1.9 | 40 |
| Site score | 48 | 100 |
How the site score works in the United Kingdom · Search sites in South Oxfordshire
Nearby sites on the same substation
19 other sites have Nuffield Primary as nearest substation and would compete for its capacity.
- 83 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire (INSPIRE polygon 62938722)0.22 km · score 52
- 83 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire (INSPIRE polygon 60271425)0.22 km · score 52
- 84 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.27 km · score 51
- 139 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.28 km · score 43
- 129 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.35 km · score 42
- 88 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.11 km · score 40
- 200 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.59 km · score 38
- 149 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.7 km · score 36
- 49 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.58 km · score 36
- 43 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.68 km · score 33
- 37 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.54 km · score 33
- 41 ha site near Nuffield Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1 km · score 28
- Sites in South Oxfordshire149
- Sites in the United Kingdom6,352
- Nuffield 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.
- 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.
- Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061. WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0.