Planning Application
In August 2024, HYRO received Council consent for Northfleet Green Hydrogen Electrolyser production and storage facility on land at Kimberly-Clark’s Northfleet manufacturing facility in Gravesend, Kent.To optimise the efficiency of the green hydrogen project, a small number of changes were needed to the consented scheme. A new planning application was submitted in March 2025 and consented in September 2025.
Electronic copies of the planning application and accompanying documents can be viewed or downloaded by clicking on the links below.
The consented application can also be viewed, on Gravesham Borough Council’s website at https://plan.gravesham.gov.uk/online-applications/ by searching reference number: 20230906.
Reports
- Decision notice
- Planning, Design and Access Statement
- EIA Screening Direction
- Transport Statement
- Construction Environment Management Plan (submitted May 2025)
- Preliminary Ecological Appraisal with Biodiversity Net Gain Report (updated May 2025)
- Biodiversity Net Gain Metric (updated May 2025)
- Flood Risk Assessment
- Utility Connections Report - part 1
- Utility Connections Report - part 2
- Southern Water Supply Consent
- Southern Water Effluent Consent
- Phase I Geoenvironmental Desk Study
- Phase I Geoenvironmental Desk Study - Appendix A
- Phase I Geoenvironmental Desk Study - Appendix B
- Phase I Geoenvironmental Desk Study - Appendix C
- Phase I Geoenvironmental Desk Study - Appendix D
- Phase I Geoenvironmental Desk Study - Appendix E
- Geoenvironmental Desk Study (Phase 2)
- Cultural Heritage Desktop Study
- Acoustic Impact Assessment
- Operational Environment Management Plan (submitted May 2025)
- Drainage Report (submitted May 2025)
Figures
- Site Location Plan
- Preliminary Infrastructure Layout Plan
- Proposed Access Route
- Elevation View – North Infrastructure Layout
- Elevation View – East Infrastructure Layout
- Elevation View - South Infrastructure Layout
- Elevation View – West Infrastructure Layout
- Candidate Electrolyser
- Hydrogen Electrolyser Elevations
- Hydrogen Storage Tank Elevations
- Emergency Vent Stack
- Nitrogen and Compressed Air Storage Tank
- Pressure Let Down System and Safety Valve
- Proposed access route and construction support areas (submitted May 2025)
- Control Room
- Maintenance Storage
- Feed Water Tank
- Typical Services Support Frame
- Indicative Pipe Gantry
- Typical Security Fence Details
- Typical Lighting and CCTV Column
- Typical Vehicle Barrier
- DNO Substation Building
- DNO Substation in GRP Enclosure
- Hydrogen Facility Substation Building
- Auxiliary Transformer
- Waste Water Tank
- Utilities Map
- Underground utilities map (submitted May 2025)
Supplementary information