Powered land · Wiltshire, England
516 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire
A candidate site of 516 ha in Wiltshire, England: one HM Land Registry INSPIRE title polygon. It touches the Enford Primary substation (Southern Electric Power Distribution plc), which has 6.78 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 | 516 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 | 55739450 (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 |
| Site of Special Scientific Interest | Salisbury Plain SSSI (33% of the site; Natural England) | planning.data.gov.uk · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Special Area of Conservation (Natura 2000) | Salisbury Plain (33% of the site; Natural England; since 3 Mar 2016) | planning.data.gov.uk · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Special Protection Area (Natura 2000) | Salisbury Plain (33% of the site; Natural England) | planning.data.gov.uk · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Scheduled monument | Thornham Down prehistoric and medieval landscapes (14.7% of the site; Historic England; since 12 Mar 1990) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Scheduled monument | Compton Farm Romano-British and Early Medieval occupation sites and associated cultivation earthworks (3.1% of the site; Historic England; since 8 Jan 1990) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Not designated | ancient woodland, Article 4 direction, conservation area, green belt, National Landscape (AONB), national park, Ramsar wetland, registered park and garden, 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 | Wiltshire, England | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.2675, -1.8290 (a point on the polygon) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Enford 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 | 6.78 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 |
| Water stress | Low to medium (10–20%) (score 1.2 of 5, withdrawals 11.8% 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 67.
| Part | This site | Points | Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 516 ha | 30 | 30 |
| Distance to the substation | 0 km | 30 | 30 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 6.78 MVA | 6.8 | 40 |
| Site score | 67 | 100 |
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Nearby sites on the same substation
10 other sites have Enford Primary as nearest substation and would compete for its capacity.
- 375 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire0.27 km · score 63
- 642 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire0.67 km · score 57
- 180 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.12 km · score 50
- 283 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.33 km · score 47
- 287 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.74 km · score 41
- 75 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.11 km · score 41
- 357 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.97 km · score 37
- 36 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire0.72 km · score 35
- 32 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.44 km · score 23
- 41 ha site near Enford Primary substation, Wiltshire1.97 km · score 18
- Sites in Wiltshire364
- Sites in the United Kingdom6,352
- Enford 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.