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Little Beanit Farm, Balsall Common - Battery Storage
Little Beanit Farm, Balsall Common - Battery Storage is a 200 MW battery storage site under construction in Solihull. Planning permission was granted on 31 August 2023, 10 months after submission. Operator of record: Penso Power (BW ESS).
Planning and build timeline
| Application submitted | 28 October 2022 |
| Permission granted | 31 August 2023 10 months after submission |
| Operational | not recorded |
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Solihull approves 88% of battery storage schemes. Redline puts that number, and everything else the record holds, against your own boundary: the authority’s actual approval rate and decision times, every designation inside the red line, agricultural grade, 1 m LIDAR earthworks, how contested the grid is, and yield with a P90 — before you spend on a consultant.
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What this site sits on
The recorded coordinate falls on land surveyed as Grade 3 agricultural land. The published survey does not split Grade 3 into 3a and 3b, so this alone does not settle whether the land counts as best and most versatile.
- Green Belt — Solihull
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.
Solihull’s record on battery storage
Solihull has decided 8 battery storage schemes and approved 88%, taking a median of 12.6 months. See every battery storage scheme decision in Solihull →
Other built sites within 15 km
| Site | MW | Distance |
|---|---|---|
EfW Incineration · Operational | 4.5 | 9.2 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 8.5 | 10.3 km |
Landfill Gas · Operational | 2.4 | 11.7 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 5 | 12.6 km |
Battery · Operational | 49.9 | 13.3 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Operational | 2 | 13.9 km |
Solar Photovoltaics · Under Construction | 25 | 14.2 km |
How big is Little Beanit Farm, Balsall Common - Battery Storage?
Little Beanit Farm, Balsall Common - Battery Storage has a recorded installed capacity of 200 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 Little Beanit Farm, Balsall Common - Battery Storage?
REPD records the operator as Penso Power (BW ESS). 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 Little Beanit Farm, Balsall Common - Battery Storage approved and built?
The application was submitted on 28 October 2022. Permission was granted on 31 August 2023, 10 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 11656.
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