Planning application · Battery storage · Vale of Glamorgan
Pen Y Maes, Ashby Road - Battery Energy Storage
Application Refused50 MWApplication 2024/00999/FULSubmitted 25 October 2024Refused 23 May 2025
The application
- Application number
- 2024/00999/FUL
- Planning authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- County or area
- South Glamorgan
- Nation
- Wales
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stand-alone Storage)
- Capacity
- 50 MW
- Status
- Application Refused (Planning Permission Refused)
- Operator or applicant
- Root Power South Limited
- Location
- Pen Y Maes, Ashby Road, Sully, Penarth, CF64 5SH
Timeline
- 25 October 2024 Planning application submitted
- 23 May 2025 Planning permission refused
Preview of the planning evidence pack for this site
The pack for this site lists 5 comparable battery incidents in the United Kingdom, grid-scale only, nearest first. The nearest is EIR-0249, Smoke and fire incident at Battery Box, Pinhoe Road, Exeter, 77 km from this site.
| Reference | Year | Incident | From the site | Severity |
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| EIR-0249 | 2026 | Smoke and fire incident at Battery Box, Pinhoe Road, Exeter | 77 km | Significant |
| EIR-0058 | 2025 | Fire in two battery containers at Cirencester Hybrid Solar Farm, Gloucestershire | 95 km | Significant |
| EIR-0638 | 2020 | Explosion and prolonged fire at Orsted battery storage site in Liverpool | 221 km | Major |
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In the full packWhat the planning evidence pack adds for this application
The pack is made for Pen Y Maes, Ashby Road - Battery Energy Storage from the register and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on. One fixed, dated file, as a PDF, a web page and a Word document.
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