Planning application · Battery storage · North Yorkshire
Windmill Farm Solar Farm (Old Malton)
Awaiting Construction12.6 MWApplication 23/00046/MFULESubmitted 25 January 2023Granted on appeal 25 February 2025
The application
- Application number
- 23/00046/MFULE
- Planning authority
- North Yorkshire
- Nation
- England
- Technology
- Battery storage (Co-located with RE)
- Capacity
- 12.6 MW
- Status
- Awaiting Construction (Appeal Granted)
- Operator or applicant
- Harmony Energy
- Location
- Great Sike Road, YO17 6SB
- Appeal reference
- 23/00046/MFULE
Timeline
- 25 February 2015 Planning permission expired
- 25 January 2023 Planning application submitted
- 17 October 2023 Planning permission refused
- 30 April 2024 Appeal lodged
- 25 February 2025 Planning permission granted
- 25 February 2025 Appeal granted
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-0584, Fire in a battery container at Rufford Colliery BESS, Rainworth, caused by a short circuit in NMC cells, 118 km from this site.
| Reference | Year | Incident | From the site | Severity |
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| EIR-0584 | 2026 | Fire in a battery container at Rufford Colliery BESS, Rainworth, caused by a short circuit in NMC cells | 118 km | Significant |
| EIR-0638 | 2020 | Explosion and prolonged fire at Orsted battery storage site in Liverpool | 164 km | Major |
| EIR-0058 | 2025 | Fire in two battery containers at Cirencester Hybrid Solar Farm, Gloucestershire | 283 km | Significant |
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In the full packWhat the planning evidence pack adds for this application
The pack is made for Windmill Farm Solar Farm (Old Malton) 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and the government planning database: every comparable incident, nearest first, with its sources; the schemes refused, withdrawn or taken to appeal within 40 km, your council first; and the fire service guidance each incident bears on.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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