CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Christchurch
Christchurch has 36 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 13,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,980 homes.
Ranks 165 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterditch Farm - Solar Farm & Battery StorageMeyrick Estate Management Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 12 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council · planning ref P/25/02590/FUL |
| Parley Court - Solar FarmEnviromena Asset Management UK Limited | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 8/21/1067/FUL |
| Chapel Lane ERFEco Sustainable Solutions | EfW Incineration | 3.4 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 8/21/0207/FUL |
| Curtiss Wright Controls, Enterprise Way - Solar PanelsCurtiss-Wright Controls Flight Systems | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 8/24/0538/PNPHV |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christchurch | 36 MW | 128 MW | not visible |
| Bournemouth East | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bournemouth West | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | 3.3 MW | 90 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| New Forest West | 24 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
North Dorset next door has 97 MW waiting, more than Christchurch's 36 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.