Planning application · Offshore wind · DECC (S36)

Rhyl Flats

Operational90 MWSubmitted 25 March 2002Granted 1 January 2003

In the evidence packnearest refused scheme •• kmShown in the pack

The application

Planning authority: DECC (S36)
County or area: Offshore
Nation: Wales
Technology: Offshore wind
Capacity: 90 MW
Status: Operational
Operator or applicant: RWE Npower
Location: 8km Abergele, five miles off the North Wales coast in Liverpool Bay
Turbines: 25
First operating: 2009

Timeline

25 March 2002 Planning application submitted
1 January 2003 Planning permission granted
1 September 2007 Construction started
28 December 2009 Operational

Preview of the planning evidence pack for this site

The pack for this site lists 11 comparable offshore wind incidents in the United Kingdom, nearest first. The nearest is EIR-0758, Service vessel collision damages turbine at Orsted's Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, 223 km from this site.

Reference	Year	Incident	From the site	Severity
EIR-0758	2024	Service vessel collision damages turbine at Orsted's Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm	223 km	Significant
EIR-1778	2018	Engineer loses arm during repair at North Sea Siemens Gamesa turbine	223 km	Major
EIR-0447	2023	Fire destroyed turbine at Scroby Sands Offshore Wind Farm in 2023	369 km	Major
••••••••	••••	••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••	••••	••••••
••••••••	••••	••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••	••••	••••••
••••••••	••••	••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••	••••	••••••
••••••••	••••	••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••	••••	••••••
••••••••	••••	••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••	••••	••••••

The first 3 rows as the pack shows them. The other 8 are in the pack, each with its distance, sources and the fire service guidance it bears on.

The map

Summary for this site

This part of the pack is written for this site and opens with the pack. This part of the pack is written for this site and opens with the pack. This part of the pack is written for this site and opens with the pack.

Paragraphs for the planning statement

In the full pack

What the planning evidence pack adds for this application

The pack is made for Rhyl Flats 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and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on.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.

Incidents within 50 km: •••
Nearest recorded incident: ••••••
UK grid-scale incidents, with NFCC notes: ••••
Schemes refused within 40 km: •••
Nearest refused scheme: ••••••••••••
Appeals within 40 km: •••
Decisions in DECC (S36): ••••••••
Sites of a similar size, worldwide: ••••
NFCC guidance points: ••••••••
Sources and citations: ••••••••••

Launch price: £145 until 31 October (normally £295). By email in minutes. The order form arrives filled in from this application.

Get the full planning pack Download a sample pack (PDF)

Alerts for applications near here

An email when another battery, solar or wind application near Rhyl Flats is added or decided, or an incident is recorded nearby. Free, nothing else, one click to stop.

By signing up you agree to the privacy policy. UK planning data is from the government's planning database, updated monthly.

Want to see a pack first? Download a sample pack (PDF). It is an example pack for a 50 MW battery project in Lincolnshire, with every section and the first rows of each table.

The site's own page has its map, the energy sites around it and anyone can follow it for changes. Every planning application. Every application in DECC (S36).

Data updated 3 August 2026 from the Renewable Energy Planning Database (DESNZ), published quarterly.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Renewable Energy Planning Database, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero). The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.