CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Ashfield
Ashfield has 7.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 2,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 40,935 homes.
Ranks 236 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Road - Solar FarmHamilton Solar Limited | Solar | 7 MW2,500 homes | Refused by Ashfield Council in 2026Who can move it: Ashfield Council · planning ref V/2025/0412 |
| Two Oaks Quarry, Coxmoor Road - Solar ArrayThe Mansfield Sand Company Limited | Solar | 3.8 MW1,400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref F/4478 |
| Sherwood Way SouthZestec Asset Management | Solar | 2.7 MW1,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref V/2021/0430 |
| Romo, Oddicroft Lane - Solar PanelsRomo limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref X/2024/0010 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfield | 7.8 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Broxtowe | 0 MW | 2.5 MW | not visible |
| Amber Valley | 28 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sherwood Forest | 3.2 MW | 125 MW | not visible |
| Mansfield | 46 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Bolsover | 35 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
Mansfield next door has 46 MW waiting, more than Ashfield's 7.8 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 2 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.