CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove has 51 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,266 homes.
Ranks 130 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illey Lane - Battery Energy StorageGrenergy Renewables UK Limited | Battery | 70 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00960/FUL |
| Foxwalks Farm, Grafton Lane - Solar FarmSpring Dev 10 Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00896/FUL |
| Foxwalks Solar Farm - ExtensionSpring Dev 10 Limited | Solar | 13 MW4,700 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Bromsgrove Council · planning ref 26/00187/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bromsgrove | 51 MW | 0.7 MW | not visible |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 134 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Redditch | 3.3 MW | 5.2 MW | not visible |
| Solihull West and Shirley | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Northfield | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Birmingham Selly Oak | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Stratford-on-Avon next door has 134 MW waiting, more than Bromsgrove's 51 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
- 3 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.