Three major battery energy storage facilities (BESS) are currently proposed in and around Braybrooke. Each of these would have massive industrial footprints, bringing severe safety, environmental, and visual impacts to our historic village and countryside.
These applications are part of a national trend of speculative BESS projects — often using a ‘cut and paste’ approach, overwhelming communities with multiple simultaneous proposals in the hope that some slip through planning.
We will fight each proposal on its own planning merits, as well as collectively oppose the industrialisation of our village.
🗺 Proposed Sites
1. Aura Power BESS (Harborough Road, near Substation)
- Size: Estimated capacity 230 battery container units
- Location: Directly adjacent to the National Grid substation, along Harborough Road.
- Planning Application Status: Aura 25/00712/FUL
2. Elmya RPC BESS (up from Substation, Harborough Road)
- Size: Estimated capacity 290 battery container units
- Location: Along Harborough Road, expanding the industrialisation corridor.
- Planning Application Status: Elmya 25/00810/FUL
3. Regener8 BESS (Eckland Lodge, Desborough Bypass)
- Size: Estimated capacity 464 battery container units
- Location: Eckland Lodge site along the Desborough Bypass.
- Planning Application Status: Regener8 25/00818/FUL
📍 Where Are They?
⚠ Why Braybrooke?
These companies are targeting our rural area because it’s near the grid substation — not because it’s the right or safe place for industrial energy storage.
They hope our small village cannot mount a credible resistance.
We intend to prove them wrong.