Work could start later this year on siting industrial-scale batteries on scenic spot outside Cleethorpes

                   

Leafy but perhaps not for much longer - the development site off  off Hewitts Avenue on the outskirts of Cleethorpes

WORK could start later this year on converting a leafy spot on the banks of the Buck Beck to an industrial site.

Knaresborough-based Harmony Energy  secured planning permission last summer to install heavy duty electricity storage batteries on the plot next to the Northern Powergrid electricity sub-station near the junction of Hewitt's Avenue and Altyre Way. 

But it had to rethink the project when Anglian Water pointed out that, beneath ground, was one of its sewer pipes which would have been rendered less accessible by the presence of industrial batteries.

However, it emerged this week that Harmony has agreed, subject to planning permission, to reduce the size of the development from 0.44ha to 0.37ha  so that it would no longer sit above the sewer.

It says it would partially compensate for having fewer batteries - eight pairs rather than 18 - by increasing their size from 4 metres to 4.3 metres.

In addition these units will now be green rather than white.

The company is set to  procure the batteries from a third party supplier.

However, before the project gets underway, Harmony will also have to provide safety and access reassurances to two other utilities companies,  Cadent Gas and Fulcrum, as well as to Northern Powergrid which have infrastructure assets in the vicinity. 

                              

An indication of how the site might look once it has been developed