hi Mark,
Not much Sunshine in Wombwell.
You can trickle charge the SLA at about 13.8V.
The size of the solar panel will depend upon the power required by the LED's
eg: current and the time the LED's are lit.
[I would have a simple dark detector and an OFF timer to conserve battery power]
The charge efficiency of a SLA can be 70%, so say for every unit of current you discharged
from the battery you would need to recharge at 1.3 times.
If you used a SMPS/controller the efficiency of the controller, say 85% would also have to be allowed for as loss.
Get the local sunshine hours and intensity for your area and work out how much power you would get from
say a 1mtr square solar panel.
[the solar panel manufacturers data will give the power outputs]