SELCHP

South East London Combined Heat and Power, better known as SELCHP, is a major energy from waste incineration plant in New Cross, London. It was designed to generate both heat and electricity.

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Type: Power station
Description: waste-to-energy power station in south east London
Also known as: “South East London Combined Heat & Power” and “South East London Combined Heat and Power”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Den and Surrey Quays railway station.

The Den

Stadium

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Den is a football stadium in New Cross Gate, south-east London, and the home of Millwall Football Club. The Den is adjacent to the South London railway originating at London Bridge, and a quarter-of-a-mile from the Old Den, which it replaced on September 30, 1993. The Den is situated 900 feet west of SELCHP.

Surrey Quays railway station

Railway station

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Surrey Quays is a railway station on the Windrush line of the London Overground network; it is located in Rotherhithe, in the London Borough of Southwark, England. Surrey Quays railway station is situated 2,800 feet north of SELCHP.

South Bermondsey railway station

Railway station

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South Bermondsey railway station is on the South London line, serving the district of South Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark and managed and operated by Southern. South Bermondsey railway station is situated 1,900 feet northwest of SELCHP.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Surrey Quays and New Cross.

Surrey Quays

Quarter

Photo: Secretlondon, Public domain.

Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks. The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.

New Cross

Suburb

Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.

New Cross is an area in south-east London, England, 4.5 miles south-east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham and the SE14 postcode district.

Rotherhithe

Suburb

Photo: Rob Kam, CC0.

Rotherhithe is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on the south bank of a bend in the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the east.

SELCHP

Categories: waste-to-energy power station and industry
Location: Lewisham, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.48564° or 51° 29′ 8″ north

Longitude

-0.04696° or 0° 2′ 49″ west

Operator

Veolia (SELCHP)

Open location code

9C3XFXP3+76

OpenStreetMap ID

way 71291686

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

Wikidata ID

Q7389694

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