Planning Application – Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and infrastructure with landscaping – West of Wymondham Road, Bracon Ash

Reference: 2025/0806
Applicant: Mr Poole
Location: Land West Of Wymondham Road, Bracon Ash [Road connecting B1113 to Flordon]
Proposal: The installation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) including associated infrastructure and landscaping
Application Type: Full Planning Permission

This planning application has been resubmitted for public consultation following a request from Norfolk County Council as the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) for a clearer statement on drainage on site. Comments to South Norfolk by 31 December 2025 [although it is noted that the LLFA have asked for an extension to 15 January 2026].

Tel 01508 533813 / 01603 430509
planning@southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk

All the planning documents can be accessed here. Documents on the South Norfolk website detail this application and include:

Landscape and Visual Assessment document dated March 2025 (2025_0806-LANDSCAPE_AND_VISUAL_ASSESSMENT-8714520.pdf)

Pg5/6 offers a description of the site:

“2.2.3 The development would comprise of the following:

• The batteries will be housed in containers running in parallel rows across the site.
• The containers will have a maximum built form of 3m.
• The BESS containers will require site levelling and small-scale groundworks for the implementation along with slab foundations.
• A Developer and District Network Operator (DNO) substation compound and associated access and infrastructure.
• Cabins including a switchgear / meter room.
• Internal service roads will run through the site.
• Underground and overground cabling.
• 2m high security fencing would be erected around the site boundary to restrict access to the site with CCTV at regular intervals.
• Associated landscape works.

2.2.4 The site would be accessed from Wymondham Road with new access roads connecting traffic from the road to the development area.

2.2.5 The development is expected to be operational for 35 years. At the end of this period, the development will be dismantled, and the site restored, or an application would be submitted to extend the life of the development….”

Pg 67 – visibility assessment for a radius of 3km from the site

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