CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Ashford
Ashford has 2.2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,351 homes. A 300 MW battery was refused planning here in 2025; while discharging it could have supplied about 1,051,000 homes.
Ranks 329 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forty Acre Wood, The Street - Battery Energy Storage SystemGreenfield Energy Developments Limited | Battery | 300 MW | Refused by Ashford Council in 2025Who can move it: Ashford Council · planning ref PA/2025/1331 |
| Premier Grocery Products, Kennington Road - Solar PanelsPremier Foods | Solar | 2.1 MW800 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref NOT/2025/0171 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashford | 2.2 MW | 0.6 MW | not visible |
| Folkestone and Hythe | 1.1 MW | 81 MW | not visible |
| Weald of Kent | 51 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| Dover and Deal | 25 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Canterbury | 1.4 MW | 17 MW | not visible |
Weald of Kent next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Ashford's 2.2 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
- 3 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.