CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Banbury
Banbury has 10 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,519 homes.
Ranks 228 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanwell Estate, Main Street - Solar FarmElgin Energy | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Cherwell Council · planning ref 25/00407/F |
| Land North of Hill FarmGreenheath Farming | Solar | 8.9 MW3,200 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 20/00574/F |
| Units D E & F, Beaumont Road - Solar PanelsAberla Energy | Solar | 2.2 MW800 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Cherwell Council · planning ref 26/01210/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banbury | 10 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Witney | 48 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 134 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Bicester and Woodstock | 112 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| South Northamptonshire | 104 MW | 85 MW | not visible |
| North Cotswolds | 55 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
Stratford-on-Avon next door has 134 MW waiting, more than Banbury's 10 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.