Land for solar farms
Land of 8 ha or more within 3 km of a primary substation, with a slope under 5° and outside protected landscapes. Results lead with the megawatts the land and the grid can both take, and the best farmland ranks below poorer land.
29,327 sites fit this search today
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
A land search, from the first words to a shortlist
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What the search looks for
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Open the search- 8 ha or more
- Within 3 km of a primary substation
- Slope under 5°
- Under a fifth trees
- Outside protected landscapes
- Not water, an airfield or an existing solar or wind farm
In this order: the most megawatts the land and the grid can both take first, best farmland ranked lower, then nearest a substation first.
On every site
- The grid
- The nearest primary substation by name, the distance to it, and the spare generation and demand capacity its network operator publishes.
- The land
- Slope, farmland grade, tree cover and flood zones, with solar yield and mean wind speed for every parcel.
- What is there already
- Solar, wind and battery schemes on or near the land with their status, and national infrastructure projects that take in part of it.
Why these rules
National Policy Statement EN-3 (2025) and common practice for solar sites; a connection within about 3 km of a primary substation keeps the cable affordable. Woodland is left out.
Best and most versatile farmland is not left out: national policy steers solar away from it where possible (EN-3), so it ranks below poorer land and is flagged on each site; land over half grades 1 and 2, over a fifth under trees, or over 30% inside a national infrastructure project is left out.
Sites from the search
Six of the sites the search returned on 10 November 2026. Each opens on the map with its record.
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Iwade59.4 ha
Swale
Primary substation Grovehurst Local 11kVDistance to that substation 1.8 km
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Shermanbury57.7 ha
Horsham
Primary substation Bolney Grid 33kVDistance to that substation 2.6 km
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South Woodham Ferrers48.7 ha
Chelmsford
Primary substation South Woodham Primary 11kVDistance to that substation 1.0 km
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South Mimms and Ridge70.4 ha
Hertsmere
Primary substation Rowley Ln Primary 11kVDistance to that substation 2.1 km
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Great Gonerby100 ha
South Kesteven
Primary substation Grantham North 11Kv S StnDistance to that substation 728 m
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Bretherton49.1 ha
Chorley
Primary substation Unnamed primary substation (Electricity North West no. 400219)Distance to that substation 2.8 km
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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