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Bristol South

MP: Karin Smyth (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Bristol South has 1.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,458 homes.

Ranks 359 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Hersey Gardens - Solar PanelsBristol City Leap Solar 2 MW700 homes Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Bristol, City of Council · planning ref 26/10173/F

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Bristol South 1.7 MW0.2 MWnot visible
North East Somerset and Hanham 0.5 MW5.2 MWnot visible
North Somerset 16 MW0 MWnot visible
Bristol East 0.3 MW0 MWnot visible
Bristol Central 0 MW0 MWnot visible

North Somerset next door has 16 MW waiting, more than Bristol South's 1.7 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
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