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Gipsy Lane
Gipsy Lane is a 20 MW battery storage site under construction in Rochdale. Planning permission was granted on 16 March 2020, 4 months after submission. Operator of record: Arlington Energy.
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 5 November 2019 |
| Permission granted | 16 March 2020 4 months after submission |
| Operational | not recorded |
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What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Urban agricultural land.
REPD gives one representative coordinate per scheme, not the site boundary, so this describes the point on record rather than the whole site — a large site can straddle a designation edge. Boundaries come from planning.data.gov.uk, which publishes for England only.
Rochdale’s record on battery storage
Rochdale has decided 6 battery storage schemes and approved 83%, taking a median of 4.9 months. See every battery storage scheme decision in Rochdale →
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|---|---|---|
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Landfill Gas · Operational | 4.1 | 5.5 km |
Liquid Air Energy Storage · Operational | 5 | 6.5 km |
Battery · Under Construction | 57 | 7.3 km |
Battery · Under Construction | 20 | 7.5 km |
Battery · Operational | 20 | 7.7 km |
Wind Onshore · Operational | 13.6 | 9 km |
How big is Gipsy Lane?
Gipsy Lane has a recorded installed capacity of 20 MW. That figure is the capacity registered in REPD, which is the scheme as consented — the metered output of a site can differ.
Who operates Gipsy Lane?
REPD records the operator as Arlington Energy. Ownership of built renewable assets changes hands regularly and REPD is published quarterly, so treat this as the operator of record rather than confirmation of who owns it today.
When was Gipsy Lane approved and built?
The application was submitted on 5 November 2019. Permission was granted on 16 March 2020, 4 months later. The site is recorded as under construction and has no operational date yet.
Source: Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Open Government Licence v3.0, plus planning designation boundaries from planning.data.gov.uk (England only). REPD is published quarterly and covers schemes of roughly 150 kW and above. Capacity is the installed capacity on record, not metered generation. Operator is the operator of record at the last extract, not confirmation of present ownership. Reference 7632.
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