Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Road (1,000 MW battery storage)
Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Road is a 1,000 MW battery storage project in Swale, England. Its status in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract) is: application submitted on 28 August 2025, no decision recorded; the record was last updated on 3 October 2025.
1,000 MWbattery storage
application submittedstatus in REPD
3 October 2025record last updated
Swalecouncil area
Planning timeline
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 28 August 2025 | Application submitted |
Project details
- Technology
- battery storage (stand-alone storage)
- Capacity
- 1,000 MW
- Status (REPD)
- application submitted
- Record last updated
- 3 October 2025
- Operator or applicant
- Nat Power
- Planning authority
- Swale
- Planning application reference
- 25/503466/FULL
- Address (REPD)
- Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Road, Eastchurch, Sheerness
- Council area (by location)
- Swale
- Name in REPD
- Old Rides Farm, Leysdown Road - Battery Energy Storage System
- REPD reference
- 18601
Who decides
| Applications | Swale | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Decided applications (solar, wind, battery) | 40 | 10,236 |
| Refused | 5 (12%) | 19% |
| Solar refused | 4 of 30 | 12% |
| Onshore wind refused | 1 of 3 | 45% |
| Battery storage refused | 0 of 7 | 16% |
| Median time from submission to decision | 15.1 weeks | 17.0 weeks |
| Appeals lodged / allowed | 3 / 3 | — |
Other large projects within 10 km
| Project | Type | MW | Status | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Rides Farm - Photovoltaic Panels | solar farm | 10 | approved, not built | 1.0 |
| Old Rides solar Farm | solar farm | 8 | operational | 1.0 |
| New Rides Wind Farm | wind farm | 8.8 | operational | 1.1 |
| South Lees Farm | solar farm | 11 | operational | 5.0 |
| Cleve Hill Solar Project | solar farm | 373 | operational | 7.2 |
| Land off Queenborough Road | battery storage | 40 | under construction | 7.7 |
| Tonge Corner Farm | solar farm | 22 | operational | 8.4 |
| Abbey Fields Farm | solar farm | 5.3 | operational | 9.2 |
| Plot 2B EurolinkV | battery storage | 20 | under construction | 9.6 |
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 (51.3998, 0.8782).