Powered land · South Oxfordshire, England
28 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire
A candidate site of 28.2 ha in South Oxfordshire, England: one HM Land Registry INSPIRE title polygon. It lies 1.69 km from the Watlington Primary substation (Southern Electric Power Distribution plc), which has 2.62 MVA of demand headroom and none for generation.
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 28.2 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 | 30624933 (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 | South Oxfordshire, England | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.6426, -0.9707 (a point on the polygon) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Watlington Primary (1.69 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 | 2.62 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 |
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
#139 of 139 sites in South Oxfordshire and #4,757 of 4,848 in the United Kingdom by site score. Larger than 2% of the sites in South Oxfordshire. Closer to its substation than 24% of them.
| Part | This site | Points | Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 28.2 ha | 7 | 30 |
| Distance to the substation | 1.69 km | 4.7 | 30 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 2.62 MVA | 2.6 | 40 |
| Site score | 14 | 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 Watlington Primary as nearest substation and would compete for its capacity.
- 225 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.95 km · score 48
- 176 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.95 km · score 48
- 157 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.05 km · score 47
- 55 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.32 km · score 43
- 53 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.44 km · score 40
- 27 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.18 km · score 37
- 57 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire (INSPIRE polygon 30430941)0.79 km · score 36
- 47 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire0.64 km · score 36
- 400 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.92 km · score 34
- 69 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.28 km · score 33
- 97 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.9 km · score 32
- 52 ha site near Watlington Primary substation, South Oxfordshire1.05 km · score 31
- Sites in South Oxfordshire140
- Sites in the United Kingdom4,971
- Watlington 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.