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Filter 19,461 candidate sites near substations in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany, 731 of them Dutch business parks with land for sale, by area, distance to the substation, its voltage, headroom or congestion, the nearest transmission substation, distance to Natura 2000, zoning, kind of site, environmental category, permits nearby, farmland price and water stress, ranked by site score. Every result links to its site page. Each country keeps its 5,000 largest candidates, so it holds every candidate of 29 ha or more in the Netherlands (of 22,834 candidates), 27 ha or more in the United Kingdom (of 44,093 candidates) and 50 ha or more in Germany (of 308,259 candidates).

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Results update as you type and the address bar keeps the filters, so a search can be shared. Each country offers the filters its public data allows. Distance, voltage, headroom and network operator are those of each site's nearest substation only: a site 0.5 km from a 150 kV substation and 1.5 km from a 380 kV one counts as 150 kV, and a voltage search does not find it. For that, the Netherlands and Germany have a filter on the distance to the nearest 380 kV substation. How the score works: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany.

30 of the 8,730 sites the search holds for the United Kingdom match: sites in Sefton. Sorted by site score.

Site	Local authority	Area	To substation	Kind	Network operator	Demand headroom	Generation headroom	Congestion	Designations	Permits nearby	Water stress	Score
6.24 ha brownfield site at Bootle Gasworks, Litherland Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	6.24 ha	0.26 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	61.9 MVA	93.1 MW	—	Article 4	12	Low (under 10%)	66
3.2 ha brownfield site at Litherland House, Litherland Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	3.2 ha	0.26 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	61.9 MVA	93.1 MW	—	Article 4	12	Low (under 10%)	66
2.93 ha brownfield site at Former People’s site, Linacre Lane, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	2.93 ha	0.38 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	61.9 MVA	93.1 MW	—	none found	12	Low (under 10%)	64
4.88 ha brownfield site at Site 4, Club, Depot & 501-509, Sefton	Sefton	4.88 ha	0.55 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	61.9 MVA	93.1 MW	—	Article 4	12	Low (under 10%)	62
2.61 ha brownfield site at 503 - 509, Hawthorne Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	2.61 ha	0.55 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	61.9 MVA	93.1 MW	—	none found	12	Low (under 10%)	62
1.08 ha brownfield site at Z Blocks Site C, Buckley Hill Lane, Netherton, Sefton	Sefton	1.08 ha	0.19 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	25.9 MVA	2.4 MW	—	none found	12	Low (under 10%)	53
1.88 ha brownfield site at Former St Raymonds School, Harrop's Croft, Netherton, Sefton	Sefton	1.88 ha	0.34 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	25.9 MVA	2.4 MW	—	none found	12	Low (under 10%)	51
1.74 ha brownfield site at Land at Former Bootle High School, Brown's Lane, Netherton, Sefton	Sefton	1.74 ha	0.52 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	25.9 MVA	2.4 MW	—	none found	13	Low (under 10%)	48
1.6 ha brownfield site at Z Blocks Site A, Buckley Hill Lane, Netherton, Sefton	Sefton	1.6 ha	0.53 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	25.9 MVA	2.4 MW	—	none found	13	Low (under 10%)	48
1.45 ha brownfield site at Land at Pendle Drive, Pendle Drive, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	1.45 ha	0.64 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	25.9 MVA	2.4 MW	—	green belt	12	Low (under 10%)	46
1.02 ha brownfield site at Factory building, Sandy Lane, Crosby & Hightown, Sefton	Sefton	1.02 ha	0.72 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	24.7 MVA	96 MW	—	Article 4, green belt	12	Low (under 10%)	44
2.28 ha brownfield site at Former St Mary’s school, Irlam Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	2.28 ha	0.34 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	17.3 MVA	1.2 MW	—	Article 4	13	Low (under 10%)	42
6.64 ha brownfield site at Former St Wilfrid’s School, Orrell Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	6.64 ha	0.34 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	14.7 MVA	5.8 MW	—	none found	12	Low (under 10%)	40
1.22 ha brownfield site at Park House, Park Road, Crosby & Hightown, Sefton	Sefton	1.22 ha	0.45 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	15.9 MVA	7.9 MW	—	Article 4	12	Low (under 10%)	39
5.03 ha brownfield site at Klondyke Ph2&3, Monfa Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	5.03 ha	0.53 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	14.7 MVA	5.8 MW	—	none found	12	Low (under 10%)	37
5.99 ha brownfield site at Former Phillip's Factory, Balmoral Drive, Southport, Sefton	Sefton	5.99 ha	0.11 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	7.4 MVA	4.6 MW	—	none found	3	Low (under 10%)	36
5.69 ha brownfield site at Land at West Lane, Formby, West Lane, Sefton	Sefton	5.69 ha	0.56 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	13.5 MVA	3.8 MW	—	green belt, SSSI, SAC	6	Low (under 10%)	35
1.81 ha brownfield site at Former Johnsons Cleaners, Mildmay Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	1.81 ha	0.66 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	14.7 MVA	5.8 MW	—	Article 4	12	Low (under 10%)	35
2.5 ha brownfield site at Former Kew Park and Ride, Crowland Street, Southport, Sefton	Sefton	2.5 ha	0.59 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	12.5 MVA	95.5 MW	—	none found	5	Low (under 10%)	34
1.84 ha brownfield site at St John's, Merton Road, Bootle, Sefton	Sefton	1.84 ha	0.14 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	5.4 MVA	4.5 MW	—	Article 4	13	Low (under 10%)	33
3.06 ha brownfield site at Land at Deyes Lane, Deyes Lane, Maghull & Aintree, Sefton	Sefton	3.06 ha	0.69 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	11.9 MVA	7.7 MW	—	none found	7	Low (under 10%)	32
1.03 ha brownfield site at Mushroom Farm, 8-10, Cable Street, Sefton	Sefton	1.03 ha	0.83 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	13.5 MVA	3.8 MW	—	none found	6	Low (under 10%)	31
1.49 ha brownfield site at Land West of Lynton Road, Lynton Road, Southport, Sefton	Sefton	1.49 ha	0.84 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	10.5 MVA	3.9 MW	—	green belt, SSSI	6	Low (under 10%)	28
1.49 ha brownfield site at Birkdale Sch Hearing Impaired, 40, Lancaster Road, Sefton	Sefton	1.49 ha	1 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	10.4 MVA	3.9 MW	—	conservation area	5	Low (under 10%)	25
2.2 ha brownfield site at The Meadows (Sandbrook), Sandbrook Road, Southport, Sefton	Sefton	2.2 ha	0.66 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	3.8 MVA	2.3 MW	—	green belt	9	Low (under 10%)	24
14 ha brownfield site at Fmr Ashworth Hospital Site (South), School Lane, Maghull, Sefton	Sefton	14 ha	1.44 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	11.9 MVA	7.7 MW	—	none found	5	Low (under 10%)	23
2.16 ha brownfield site at Land off Heysham Road, Bootle, Heysham Road, Sefton	Sefton	2.16 ha	0.93 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	5.7 MVA	4.8 MW	—	none found	14	Low (under 10%)	22
4.86 ha brownfield site at Land w of Southport & Formby DGH, Town Lane, Southport, Sefton	Sefton	4.86 ha	1.18 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	8 MVA	4.5 MW	—	none found	5	Low (under 10%)	20
19 ha brownfield site at Town Lane - David Wilson Homes, Town Lane, Southport, Sefton	Sefton	19 ha	1.84 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	8 MVA	4.5 MW	—	none found	6	Low (under 10%)	15
1.06 ha brownfield site at Oak Lea Racing Stables, Southport Road, Maghull & Aintree, Sefton	Sefton	1.06 ha	2.1 km	Brownfield register	SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire	11.9 MVA	7.7 MW	—	conservation area, green belt	3	Low (under 10%)	12

Permits nearby: planning projects within 5 km with permission, under construction or applied for (REPD, NSIP) and brownfield land with permission. Water stress: baseline water stress of the site's sub-basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0): withdrawals as a share of the renewable water supply. Designations: the planning.data.gov.uk designations a site overlaps by 1% of its area or more; "not in" keeps only sites where that designation's data covers the council. Sites: the 5,000 largest of the 44,093 candidate sites near a primary or bulk supply substation with headroom, so every candidate of 27 ha or more is here and the rest are smaller; brownfield register sites come on top, at any size. Congestion: the network operator's status for new demand at the substation.

Data: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; 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; Supported by National Energy SO Open Data; Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data; Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; Rare Context; Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data; SSEN Distribution; UK Power Networks; 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; Rare Context (sites and scores). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) for the INSPIRE polygons, brownfield registers and district boundaries; each network operator's licence for the headroom.

This search as plain links

For AI assistants: https://rarecontext.com/api/sites/country/gb/region/sefton answers the same, and each link below opens a narrower or wider search, with the number of sites it finds (how).

Kind of site: Brownfield register sites (30 sites)

Distance to a substation: within 0.5 km of a substation (10 sites) · within 1 km of a substation (26 sites) · within 2 km of a substation (29 sites) · within 5 km of a substation (30 sites)

Demand headroom: 10 MVA or more of demand headroom (24 sites) · 30 MVA or more of demand headroom (5 sites) · 50 MVA or more of demand headroom (5 sites)

Network operator: SP Energy Networks (30 sites)

Size: 1 ha or more (30 sites) · 5 ha or more (7 sites) · 10 ha or more (2 sites)

Water stress: low or low-medium water stress (30 sites) · low water stress (30 sites)

Sort: sort by largest first · sort by closest to a substation · sort by most demand headroom · sort by most permits nearby · sort by lowest water stress

Wider: without "in Sefton" (8,730 sites)

Other countries: Netherlands · Germany

Owners are not public in any of these countries: ask for a site search with owners below.

Without JavaScript, put the filters in the address (see Use it from a script or an AI), or browse the ranked sites: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany.

Use it from a script or an AI

Every search here is one plain GET, with no JavaScript needed. Put the filters in the address and /sites/search answers with the matching sites as an HTML table: the first 100, in the order this page sorts them, with the number of all matches and the filters restated in a sentence. /api/sites takes the same filters and answers JSON: every site's facts as named fields and its page's URL, 100 at a time (limit, up to 1,000, and offset page through the matches). A filter that a country's data lacks is left out, and the answer says which and why.

For AI assistants, every search is also a plain link of /key/value pairs, without a query string, and each answer links to the narrower and wider searches from it: /api/sites is the start, and the API page has the prompt to give Claude or ChatGPT.

Parameter	What it filters
`country`	NL, GB or DE (default NL)
`region`	a province (NL), local authority (GB) or Land (DE): its key, URL slug or name
`min_ha`	minimum area in hectares
`max_km`	maximum distance to the nearest substation, km
`kind`	NL: park, on_park, parcels; GB: brownfield, parcels
`min_category`	NL: minimum environmental category of a business park (1 to 6)
`min_kv`	NL, DE: minimum voltage of the nearest substation, kV
`max_tso_km`	DE: maximum distance to the nearest transmission substation (220 kV and up), km
`min_tso_kv`	DE: minimum voltage of that transmission substation (220 or 380)
`max_ehv_km`	NL, DE: maximum distance to the nearest 380 kV substation, km, even where a lower-voltage substation is nearer
`dno`	GB: network operator of the nearest substation, a group (Northern Powergrid) or one licence area
`min_mw`	GB: minimum demand headroom at the nearest substation, MVA or MW
`congestion`	GB (NL once public: the TenneT station): congestion for new demand, none or none,limited
`regional`	NL, once public: the regional operator's offtake status at the site's postcode, none, limited, waitlist or full; it binds a medium-voltage connection
`min_n2k`	NL: minimum distance to Natura 2000, km
`outside_n2k`	NL: 1 for outside Natura 2000 areas
`zoning`	NL, DE: zoning class of the plan, e.g. industrial,commercial
`land_use`	DE: land use in the cadastre
`desig`	GB, DE: in:<designation>, out:<designation> or none
`min_permits`	NL, GB: minimum permits nearby
`min_areas`	DE: minimum designated wind or solar areas within 5 km
`max_price`	NL: maximum farmland price, EUR/ha
`max_water`	maximum water stress: 0 low to 4 extremely high, or low, low_medium, medium_high, high, extremely_high
`sort`	score (default), ha, km, n2k_km, headroom, kv, tso_km, ehv_km, permits, areas, price, water, category
`touching`	1 to include sites ruled out in review
`ranked`	1 for ranked sites only (leaves out sites that touch their substation)

Distance, voltage, headroom and network operator are those of each site's nearest substation; in Germany also of its nearest transmission substation.

Examples

Gelderland: plots of 20 ha or more within 2 km of a 380 kV substation and at least 1 km from Natura 2000: /sites/search?country=NL&region=NL-GE&min_ha=20&max_ehv_km=2&min_n2k=1 (JSON)
Yorkshire and the North East: brownfield sites of 10 ha or more within 1 km of a Northern Powergrid substation with 30 MVA or more of demand headroom: /sites/search?country=GB&min_ha=10&max_km=1&kind=brownfield&dno=Northern+Powergrid&min_mw=30 (JSON)
Germany: plots of 50 ha or more zoned industrial in the land-use plan within 1.5 km of a 380 kV transmission substation: /sites/search?country=DE&min_ha=50&max_ehv_km=1.5&zoning=industrial (JSON)

The whole index behind this search is one JSON file per country (Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany). Its columns name each site's fields, word fields are indexes into the lists of the same name (dnos, zonings), and a site's page is /sites/{country}/{area slug}/{leaf}.

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Netherlands 5,731 sites

United Kingdom 8,730 sites

Germany 5,000 sites

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IBIS Bedrijventerreinen, IPO and RVO. IBIS Bedrijventerreinen (IPO, via RVO WarmteAtlas), CC0 1.0.
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