Powered land · Wiltshire, England
1,015 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire (INSPIRE polygon 59122745)
A candidate site of 1,015 ha in Wiltshire, England: one HM Land Registry INSPIRE title polygon. It lies 0.9 km from the Petersfinger Primary substation (Southern Electric Power Distribution plc), which has 5.46 MVA of demand headroom and none for generation.
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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Area | 1,015 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 | 59122745 (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 |
| Ancient woodland | CLARENDON PARK COPSES (26% of the site; Natural England) | planning.data.gov.uk · record · Open Government Licence v3.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 |
| Not designated | Article 4 direction, conservation area, green belt, National Landscape (AONB), 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 | Wiltshire, England | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 51.0726, -1.7229 (a point on the polygon) | Rare Context powered-land sites · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Nearest substation | Petersfinger Primary (0.9 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 | 5.46 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 | Medium to high (20–40%) (score 2.4 of 5, withdrawals 26.1% 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
#73 of 353 sites in Wiltshire and #905 of 6,229 in the United Kingdom by site score. Larger than 99% of the sites in Wiltshire. Closer to its substation than 67% of them.
| Part | This site | Points | Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area | 1,015 ha | 30 | 30 |
| Distance to the substation | 0.9 km | 16.5 | 30 |
| Demand headroom at the substation | 5.46 MVA | 5.5 | 40 |
| Site score | 52 | 100 |
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Nearby sites on the same substation
11 other sites have Petersfinger Primary as nearest substation and would compete for its capacity.
- 1,015 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire (INSPIRE polygon 44573413)0.9 km · score 52
- 289 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.17 km · score 48
- 236 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.58 km · score 42
- 31 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire0.1 km · score 42
- 83 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.49 km · score 36
- 89 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.77 km · score 34
- 66 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.3 km · score 34
- 82 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.78 km · score 32
- 34 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.66 km · score 19
- 32 ha site near Petersfinger Primary substation, Wiltshire1.72 km · score 18
- 1.49 ha brownfield site at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire2.31 km · score 5
- Sites in Wiltshire364
- Sites in the United Kingdom6,352
- Petersfinger 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.