CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Blackpool North and Fleetwood
Blackpool North and Fleetwood has 1 MW of renewables running, enough for 500 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,949 homes.
Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Avenue - Battery Energy Storage FacilityHenco International Limited | Battery | 25 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/0246 |
| Hillhouse Business Park - Thornton Energy Recovery CentreSesona Limited | EfW Incineration | 9.3 MW | Waiting 3.5 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wyre Council · planning ref LCC/2023/0003 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackpool North and Fleetwood | 0 MW | 1.3 MW | not visible |
| Fylde | 26 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
| Blackpool South | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Fylde next door has 26 MW waiting, more than Blackpool North and Fleetwood's 0 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.