CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,224 homes.
Ranks 429 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holden WaySTOR Power | Battery | 6 MW | Approved 8 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 17/00846/FUL |
| Tameside General Hospital - Energy CentreTameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust | Air Source Heat Pumps | 2 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Tameside Council · planning ref 26/00405/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Gorton and Denton | 0.5 MW | 1.9 MW | not visible |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | 0.2 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
| Manchester Central | 2.9 MW | 4.1 MW | not visible |
| Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton | 2.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Manchester Central next door has 2.9 MW waiting, more than Ashton-under-Lyne's 0.9 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.