CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bradford South
Bradford South has 2 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,656 homes.
Ranks 342 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swaledale House, Weaverthorpe Road - Solar PanelsPrinces Soft Drinks | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01623/MAF |
| Roydsdale Way, Unit 6 - Solar PanelBorgWarner | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/04564/PNP |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford South | 2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Spen Valley | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leeds South West and Morley | 0.7 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
| Leeds West and Pudsey | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bradford East | 0.6 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
| Calder Valley | 1.4 MW | 12 MW | not visible |
Bradford South has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.