Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane (20 MW battery storage)
Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane is a 20 MW battery storage project in Cheshire East, England. Its status in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract) is: approved on 11 April 2025, not yet built; the record was last updated on 20 May 2025.
20 MWbattery storage
approved, not builtstatus in REPD
20 May 2025record last updated
Cheshire Eastcouncil area
Planning timeline
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 16 October 2024 | Application submitted |
| 11 April 2025 | Planning permission granted |
| 11 April 2028 | Permission due to expire (unless work starts) |
Project details
- Technology
- battery storage (co-located with fossil fuel plant)
- Capacity
- 20 MW
- Status (REPD)
- approved, not built
- Record last updated
- 20 May 2025
- Operator or applicant
- Bluefield Sandbach Limited
- Planning authority
- Cheshire East
- Planning application reference
- 24/4104/FUL
- Address (REPD)
- Former Power Station, Booth Lane, Moston
- Council area (by location)
- Cheshire East
- Time to decision
- 25 weeks
- Name in REPD
- Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane - Battery Energy Storage System
- REPD reference
- 17725
Earlier applications for this site
| Application | MW | Submitted | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former EON Power Station, Booth Lane 21/6426C | 20 | 4 January 2022 | replaced by a revised application |
Who decides
| Applications | Cheshire East | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Decided applications (solar, wind, battery) | 40 | 10,236 |
| Refused | 4 (10%) | 19% |
| Solar refused | 4 of 36 | 12% |
| Battery storage refused | 0 of 4 | 16% |
| Median time from submission to decision | 11.1 weeks | 17.0 weeks |
| Appeals lodged / allowed | 2 / 1 | — |
Other large projects within 10 km
| Project | Type | MW | Status | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragons Lane | battery storage | 12 | approved, not built | 0.5 |
| Land south of Wood Lane (Safeguard Bradwell) | solar farm | 5 | operational | 1.7 |
| Drury Lane | solar farm | 17 | approved, not built | 4.5 |
| Land at Moss Farm (North) | solar farm | 6 | permission expired | 5.0 |
| Land at Moss Farm (South) | solar farm | 5 | permission expired | 5.2 |
| Middlewich Road Solar Photovoltaics & Battery Storage | solar farm | 5 | approved, not built | 5.9 |
| Leighton Hall Farm | battery storage | 20 | permission expired | 7.8 |
| Bentley Motors Ltd 1 | rooftop solar | 5.1 | operational | 8.0 |
| Woodford Lane West Solar Farm (Hebden Green) | solar farm | 19 | approved, not built | 10.0 |
Status and dates as recorded in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract); the database is compiled from public sources and can lag behind council decisions. Location: REPD grid reference (53.1654, -2.4063).