Sweetbriar Farm (800 MW battery storage)
Sweetbriar Farm is an 800 MW battery storage project in North Lincolnshire, England. Its status in the Renewable Energy Planning Database (July 2026 extract) is: application submitted on 2 July 2025, no decision recorded; the record was last updated on 8 August 2025.
800 MWbattery storage
application submittedstatus in REPD
8 August 2025record last updated
North Lincolnshirecouncil area
Planning timeline
| Date | Stage |
|---|---|
| 2 July 2025 | Application submitted |
Project details
- Technology
- battery storage (stand-alone storage)
- Capacity
- 800 MW
- Status (REPD)
- application submitted
- Record last updated
- 8 August 2025
- Operator or applicant
- Lightrock Power Limited
- Planning authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Planning application reference
- PA/2025/794
- Address (REPD)
- S/O Sweetbriar Farm, Ulceby
- Council area (by location)
- North Lincolnshire
- Name in REPD
- Sweetbriar Farm - Battery Energy Storage System
- REPD reference
- 18069
Who decides
| Applications | North Lincolnshire | UK |
|---|---|---|
| Decided applications (solar, wind, battery) | 47 | 10,236 |
| Refused | 15 (32%) | 19% |
| Solar refused | 7 of 33 | 12% |
| Onshore wind refused | 8 of 10 | 45% |
| Battery storage refused | 0 of 4 | 16% |
| Median time from submission to decision | 10.0 weeks | 17.0 weeks |
| Appeals lodged / allowed | 6 / 4 | — |
Other large projects within 10 km
| Project | Type | MW | Status | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Briar Farm Solar Farm | solar farm | 39 | approved, not built | 0.6 |
| Stallingboroughe, Stallingborough Road Solar PV Energy | solar farm | 37.4 | approved, not built | 5.7 |
| Stallingboroughe, Stallingborough Road | battery storage | 375 | approved, not built | 5.7 |
| Elsham Wind Farm | wind farm | 30 | refused on appeal | 6.5 |
| Solar Farm at Adj To A180 | solar farm | 49.9 | approved, not built | 6.7 |
| Immingham Solar Farm | battery storage | 30 | approved, not built | 6.7 |
| Mauxhall Farm | solar farm | 18 | permission expired | 7.2 |
| Mauxhall Farm | battery storage | 24 | permission expired | 7.2 |
| Stallingborough Road | solar farm | 12.4 | application submitted | 8.1 |
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 (53.6222, -0.3036).