Stop the East Halton battery storage development PA/2026/1041
The Issue
PROTECT EAST HALTON – STOP PA/2026/1041
How much more industrial development is one small village expected to take?
We are calling on North Lincolnshire Council to refuse planning application PA/2026/1041, for a major Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and associated infrastructure proposed approximately 650 metres east of East Halton.
This petition is about far more than one planning application.
It is about the future of East Halton.
It is about a small rural community that has already had to fight to protect its school, fight to keep families and children in the village, and fight for the modest growth needed to keep our community alive.
Now we face yet another major industrial and energy development on our doorstep.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
East Halton is not an empty space on a planning map.
It is our home.
People live here. Children grow up here. We have a school we have fought to protect. We have farms, horses, livestock, wildlife, businesses and families.
Our village already sits alongside an area dominated by refineries, ports, pipelines, heavy industry, energy infrastructure and HGV traffic.
How much more is East Halton expected to absorb?
At what point does our village stop being a rural community and become an island surrounded by industrial infrastructure?
WHAT FUTURE DOES NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL ACTUALLY WANT FOR EAST HALTON?
There is separately a proposal for approximately 40 new homes on land north of East Halton School – PA/2026/379.
Those homes could bring families and children into our village.
They could support our community and strengthen the future of East Halton Primary School.
Yet while modest residential growth capable of sustaining our village remains unresolved, further major industrial and energy infrastructure is proposed around our countryside.
If rural character and countryside are reasons to constrain the homes and families capable of sustaining our village, why should that same countryside continue to accommodate major industrial infrastructure?
East Halton needs a future.
It needs families.
It needs children.
It needs its school.
It does not need to be progressively surrounded by industrial compounds.
WHAT HAPPENS IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG?
We are not opposed to renewable energy.
Battery storage has an important role in Britain’s energy system.
But renewable energy must also be safe energy — and appropriately located.
UK Government health and safety guidance recognises that thermal runaway in lithium-based battery systems can potentially result in fire, explosion and the release of toxic gases or contaminated water run-off.
These are recognised hazards requiring proper assessment and mitigation.
And that brings us to one of the most disturbing issues raised so far.
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD EAST HALTON COULD HAVE TO BE EVACUATED
Parish councillors who attended a council meeting have informed us that, when questions were raised about what would happen in the event of a serious incident, the response given was that:
East Halton would have to be evacuated and animals and livestock would have to be left behind.
We call upon the relevant authorities to formally confirm or correct that account.
If evacuation of East Halton genuinely forms part of a credible emergency response, residents have a right to know that before planning permission is granted.
If the account is incorrect, residents equally deserve to know what the actual emergency arrangements are.
Either way, we want answers.
What circumstances could trigger an evacuation?
Who would order it?
How would residents be warned?
Where would residents go?
How quickly could an entire village realistically be evacuated using our rural roads?
How would elderly, disabled and vulnerable residents be assisted?
What happens when emergency vehicles need to enter while residents are trying to leave?
WHAT HAPPENS TO EAST HALTON PRIMARY SCHOOL?
What happens if an incident occurs during the school day?
Who takes responsibility for evacuating our children?
Where would they be taken?
How would parents be reunited with them?
These questions should have answers before this application is determined.
WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR ANIMALS?
East Halton is a rural community.
Our village and surrounding countryside contain horses, cattle, sheep, livestock, pets and wildlife.
Animals cannot simply be placed in a car and evacuated at a moment’s notice.
If residents could potentially be instructed to leave immediately:
Are farmers expected to abandon livestock?
Are horse owners expected to leave their horses behind?
What happens to animals outdoors if smoke or combustion products travel across agricultural land?
What happens if residents cannot return to provide food, water and care?
Who is responsible for their welfare?
If leaving animals behind genuinely forms part of an emergency response, farmers and animal owners have a right to know.
IF EAST HALTON COULD NEED EVACUATING, WHERE DOES THE POTENTIAL IMPACT END?
This question matters beyond East Halton.
What does the evidence show for Killingholme?
Ulceby?
Immingham?
Goxhill?
Barrow-upon-Humber?
Barton-upon-Humber?
And under different wind and weather conditions, what does scientific modelling show for communities across the Humber, including Kingston upon Hull?
We are not claiming these communities would have to evacuate.
We are demanding evidence establishing whether and under what circumstances communities beyond East Halton could potentially be affected.
SHOW US WHERE THE POTENTIAL IMPACT ENDS
We want appropriate independent modelling of credible serious-incident scenarios.
Consider different wind directions.
Consider different weather conditions.
Establish scientifically the geographical extent of potential effects.
Then publish the findings.
If the evidence demonstrates that effects would remain localised, residents deserve that reassurance.
If it identifies circumstances where effects could extend further, potentially affected communities deserve to know that too.
People should not have to guess.
WHERE IS THE EMERGENCY PLAN?
Before this application is determined, residents want to see appropriate evidence addressing:
The fire strategy.
The emergency response plan.
Any evacuation or shelter-in-place strategy.
Appropriate fire-gas/plume assessment.
Firefighting-water provision.
Contaminated-water containment.
Emergency access.
East Halton Primary School.
Vulnerable residents.
Farms, horses and livestock.
The ability of emergency services to respond effectively to a serious incident at this particular location.
If this development is safe and appropriately located:
DEMONSTRATE IT.
OUR ROADS ARE NOT INDUSTRIAL HIGHWAYS
East Halton is served by rural roads used every day by residents, children, pedestrians, cyclists, school traffic and agricultural vehicles.
They should not become unlimited construction routes for an ever-growing collection of major infrastructure projects.
Residents deserve clear information about proposed HGV routes, expected vehicle movements, abnormal loads, construction hours, road-safety measures and emergency access.
Most importantly, the council must consider the cumulative traffic generated by major developments across the surrounding area, rather than examining every project in isolation.
Our roads have limits.
So does our community.
WHAT ABOUT OUR HOMES?
For many families, their home is their largest financial investment.
Residents are understandably concerned about what progressively surrounding East Halton with industrial and energy infrastructure could mean for the amenity, desirability and future marketability of homes in the village.
The proposal is described as approximately 650 metres east of East Halton.
But residents deserve to know the distance between the actual proposed battery infrastructure and the nearest individual homes.
We want clear mapping showing exactly where the infrastructure would sit in relation to homes, farms, roads, watercourses and other sensitive locations.
STOP LOOKING AT EACH DEVELOPMENT IN ISOLATION
East Halton already lives beside a huge industrial area.
Another development cannot simply be considered as another isolated box on a planning officer’s desk.
Residents experience the combined reality:
Existing industry.
Energy infrastructure.
Construction traffic.
HGVs.
Noise.
Lighting.
Landscape impacts.
Environmental effects.
Emergency risks.
And further development that may follow.
Industrialisation by increments is still industrialisation.
We demand a genuine assessment of the cumulative effect upon East Halton.
WE HAVE ALREADY FOUGHT FOR THIS VILLAGE
East Halton residents and parents have already stood together to protect the future of our village school.
We did that because a village without children, families and a viable school eventually ceases to be the community generations before us built.
Now we are standing together again.
We are not anti-progress.
We are not anti-renewable energy.
WE ARE PRO-EAST HALTON.
We want responsible development.
We want families.
We want homes.
We want our school to thrive.
We want our countryside protected.
We want our farmers and animals protected.
We want our children to inherit a village with a future.
And we will not quietly watch East Halton become increasingly surrounded by industrial infrastructure while the residential growth capable of strengthening our community struggles to move forward.
WHAT WE ARE DEMANDING
We call upon North Lincolnshire Council to refuse PA/2026/1041.
Before any decision is taken, we also call for:
1. Appropriate independent fire-gas/plume modelling considering credible incident scenarios and different wind and weather conditions.
2. Full involvement of Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, with its substantive response made publicly available.
3. Publication of a comprehensive site-specific Emergency Response Plan, including evacuation or shelter-in-place arrangements where applicable.
4. Formal confirmation or correction of the reported statement that East Halton could have to be evacuated and animals/livestock left behind.
5. Specific emergency planning for East Halton Primary School.
6. Emergency planning addressing farms, horses, livestock, pets and vulnerable residents.
7. Evidence demonstrating adequate firefighting water, emergency access and resources for a prolonged BESS incident.
8. A detailed strategy for containing contaminated firefighting water and protecting farmland, drainage, watercourses and the Humber environment.
9. Accurate mapping showing the proposed infrastructure in relation to the nearest homes and other sensitive receptors.
10. A comprehensive construction-traffic, HGV and abnormal-load assessment.
11. A genuine cumulative-impact assessment covering existing, approved and proposed industrial and energy infrastructure around East Halton.
12. A public meeting involving residents, North Lincolnshire Council, the developer and relevant emergency authorities where residents can ask questions directly.
THIS IS OUR HOME
East Halton may be a small village.
OUR VOICE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE SMALL.
This community has already demonstrated what can happen when residents stand together.
We are prepared to stand together again.
And we ask people throughout Killingholme, Ulceby, Immingham, Goxhill, Barrow-upon-Humber, Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Hull and the wider Humber to stand with us.
Not because we are telling those communities that they are in danger.
But because communities deserve evidence, transparency and answers before major infrastructure is approved.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION
Protect our village.
Protect our school.
Protect our homes.
Protect our countryside.
Protect our farms and animals.
PROTECT EAST HALTON.
We want the evidence before the decision.
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The Issue
PROTECT EAST HALTON – STOP PA/2026/1041
How much more industrial development is one small village expected to take?
We are calling on North Lincolnshire Council to refuse planning application PA/2026/1041, for a major Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and associated infrastructure proposed approximately 650 metres east of East Halton.
This petition is about far more than one planning application.
It is about the future of East Halton.
It is about a small rural community that has already had to fight to protect its school, fight to keep families and children in the village, and fight for the modest growth needed to keep our community alive.
Now we face yet another major industrial and energy development on our doorstep.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
East Halton is not an empty space on a planning map.
It is our home.
People live here. Children grow up here. We have a school we have fought to protect. We have farms, horses, livestock, wildlife, businesses and families.
Our village already sits alongside an area dominated by refineries, ports, pipelines, heavy industry, energy infrastructure and HGV traffic.
How much more is East Halton expected to absorb?
At what point does our village stop being a rural community and become an island surrounded by industrial infrastructure?
WHAT FUTURE DOES NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE COUNCIL ACTUALLY WANT FOR EAST HALTON?
There is separately a proposal for approximately 40 new homes on land north of East Halton School – PA/2026/379.
Those homes could bring families and children into our village.
They could support our community and strengthen the future of East Halton Primary School.
Yet while modest residential growth capable of sustaining our village remains unresolved, further major industrial and energy infrastructure is proposed around our countryside.
If rural character and countryside are reasons to constrain the homes and families capable of sustaining our village, why should that same countryside continue to accommodate major industrial infrastructure?
East Halton needs a future.
It needs families.
It needs children.
It needs its school.
It does not need to be progressively surrounded by industrial compounds.
WHAT HAPPENS IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG?
We are not opposed to renewable energy.
Battery storage has an important role in Britain’s energy system.
But renewable energy must also be safe energy — and appropriately located.
UK Government health and safety guidance recognises that thermal runaway in lithium-based battery systems can potentially result in fire, explosion and the release of toxic gases or contaminated water run-off.
These are recognised hazards requiring proper assessment and mitigation.
And that brings us to one of the most disturbing issues raised so far.
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD EAST HALTON COULD HAVE TO BE EVACUATED
Parish councillors who attended a council meeting have informed us that, when questions were raised about what would happen in the event of a serious incident, the response given was that:
East Halton would have to be evacuated and animals and livestock would have to be left behind.
We call upon the relevant authorities to formally confirm or correct that account.
If evacuation of East Halton genuinely forms part of a credible emergency response, residents have a right to know that before planning permission is granted.
If the account is incorrect, residents equally deserve to know what the actual emergency arrangements are.
Either way, we want answers.
What circumstances could trigger an evacuation?
Who would order it?
How would residents be warned?
Where would residents go?
How quickly could an entire village realistically be evacuated using our rural roads?
How would elderly, disabled and vulnerable residents be assisted?
What happens when emergency vehicles need to enter while residents are trying to leave?
WHAT HAPPENS TO EAST HALTON PRIMARY SCHOOL?
What happens if an incident occurs during the school day?
Who takes responsibility for evacuating our children?
Where would they be taken?
How would parents be reunited with them?
These questions should have answers before this application is determined.
WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR ANIMALS?
East Halton is a rural community.
Our village and surrounding countryside contain horses, cattle, sheep, livestock, pets and wildlife.
Animals cannot simply be placed in a car and evacuated at a moment’s notice.
If residents could potentially be instructed to leave immediately:
Are farmers expected to abandon livestock?
Are horse owners expected to leave their horses behind?
What happens to animals outdoors if smoke or combustion products travel across agricultural land?
What happens if residents cannot return to provide food, water and care?
Who is responsible for their welfare?
If leaving animals behind genuinely forms part of an emergency response, farmers and animal owners have a right to know.
IF EAST HALTON COULD NEED EVACUATING, WHERE DOES THE POTENTIAL IMPACT END?
This question matters beyond East Halton.
What does the evidence show for Killingholme?
Ulceby?
Immingham?
Goxhill?
Barrow-upon-Humber?
Barton-upon-Humber?
And under different wind and weather conditions, what does scientific modelling show for communities across the Humber, including Kingston upon Hull?
We are not claiming these communities would have to evacuate.
We are demanding evidence establishing whether and under what circumstances communities beyond East Halton could potentially be affected.
SHOW US WHERE THE POTENTIAL IMPACT ENDS
We want appropriate independent modelling of credible serious-incident scenarios.
Consider different wind directions.
Consider different weather conditions.
Establish scientifically the geographical extent of potential effects.
Then publish the findings.
If the evidence demonstrates that effects would remain localised, residents deserve that reassurance.
If it identifies circumstances where effects could extend further, potentially affected communities deserve to know that too.
People should not have to guess.
WHERE IS THE EMERGENCY PLAN?
Before this application is determined, residents want to see appropriate evidence addressing:
The fire strategy.
The emergency response plan.
Any evacuation or shelter-in-place strategy.
Appropriate fire-gas/plume assessment.
Firefighting-water provision.
Contaminated-water containment.
Emergency access.
East Halton Primary School.
Vulnerable residents.
Farms, horses and livestock.
The ability of emergency services to respond effectively to a serious incident at this particular location.
If this development is safe and appropriately located:
DEMONSTRATE IT.
OUR ROADS ARE NOT INDUSTRIAL HIGHWAYS
East Halton is served by rural roads used every day by residents, children, pedestrians, cyclists, school traffic and agricultural vehicles.
They should not become unlimited construction routes for an ever-growing collection of major infrastructure projects.
Residents deserve clear information about proposed HGV routes, expected vehicle movements, abnormal loads, construction hours, road-safety measures and emergency access.
Most importantly, the council must consider the cumulative traffic generated by major developments across the surrounding area, rather than examining every project in isolation.
Our roads have limits.
So does our community.
WHAT ABOUT OUR HOMES?
For many families, their home is their largest financial investment.
Residents are understandably concerned about what progressively surrounding East Halton with industrial and energy infrastructure could mean for the amenity, desirability and future marketability of homes in the village.
The proposal is described as approximately 650 metres east of East Halton.
But residents deserve to know the distance between the actual proposed battery infrastructure and the nearest individual homes.
We want clear mapping showing exactly where the infrastructure would sit in relation to homes, farms, roads, watercourses and other sensitive locations.
STOP LOOKING AT EACH DEVELOPMENT IN ISOLATION
East Halton already lives beside a huge industrial area.
Another development cannot simply be considered as another isolated box on a planning officer’s desk.
Residents experience the combined reality:
Existing industry.
Energy infrastructure.
Construction traffic.
HGVs.
Noise.
Lighting.
Landscape impacts.
Environmental effects.
Emergency risks.
And further development that may follow.
Industrialisation by increments is still industrialisation.
We demand a genuine assessment of the cumulative effect upon East Halton.
WE HAVE ALREADY FOUGHT FOR THIS VILLAGE
East Halton residents and parents have already stood together to protect the future of our village school.
We did that because a village without children, families and a viable school eventually ceases to be the community generations before us built.
Now we are standing together again.
We are not anti-progress.
We are not anti-renewable energy.
WE ARE PRO-EAST HALTON.
We want responsible development.
We want families.
We want homes.
We want our school to thrive.
We want our countryside protected.
We want our farmers and animals protected.
We want our children to inherit a village with a future.
And we will not quietly watch East Halton become increasingly surrounded by industrial infrastructure while the residential growth capable of strengthening our community struggles to move forward.
WHAT WE ARE DEMANDING
We call upon North Lincolnshire Council to refuse PA/2026/1041.
Before any decision is taken, we also call for:
1. Appropriate independent fire-gas/plume modelling considering credible incident scenarios and different wind and weather conditions.
2. Full involvement of Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, with its substantive response made publicly available.
3. Publication of a comprehensive site-specific Emergency Response Plan, including evacuation or shelter-in-place arrangements where applicable.
4. Formal confirmation or correction of the reported statement that East Halton could have to be evacuated and animals/livestock left behind.
5. Specific emergency planning for East Halton Primary School.
6. Emergency planning addressing farms, horses, livestock, pets and vulnerable residents.
7. Evidence demonstrating adequate firefighting water, emergency access and resources for a prolonged BESS incident.
8. A detailed strategy for containing contaminated firefighting water and protecting farmland, drainage, watercourses and the Humber environment.
9. Accurate mapping showing the proposed infrastructure in relation to the nearest homes and other sensitive receptors.
10. A comprehensive construction-traffic, HGV and abnormal-load assessment.
11. A genuine cumulative-impact assessment covering existing, approved and proposed industrial and energy infrastructure around East Halton.
12. A public meeting involving residents, North Lincolnshire Council, the developer and relevant emergency authorities where residents can ask questions directly.
THIS IS OUR HOME
East Halton may be a small village.
OUR VOICE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE SMALL.
This community has already demonstrated what can happen when residents stand together.
We are prepared to stand together again.
And we ask people throughout Killingholme, Ulceby, Immingham, Goxhill, Barrow-upon-Humber, Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Hull and the wider Humber to stand with us.
Not because we are telling those communities that they are in danger.
But because communities deserve evidence, transparency and answers before major infrastructure is approved.
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION
Protect our village.
Protect our school.
Protect our homes.
Protect our countryside.
Protect our farms and animals.
PROTECT EAST HALTON.
We want the evidence before the decision.
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Petition created on 24 September 2026