CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Dorking and Horley
Dorking and Horley has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 39,123 homes.
Ranks 470 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobham Road, Bookham - Solar FarmPublic Power Solution Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref MO/2024/1048 |
| Little Flanchford Farm, Flanchford Road - Solar EnergyIlos Little Flanchford Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Waiting 20 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Mole Valley Council · planning ref MO/2024/1823 |
| Smoke Jacks Brickworks, Horsham Road - Ground Mounted Solar PanelsWienerberger Limited Head Office | Solar | 1.6 MW600 homes | Waiting 19 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Mole Valley Council · planning ref SCC_Ref_2024-0180 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorking and Horley | 0.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Horsham | 51 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
| Godalming and Ash | 1 MW | 2 MW | not visible |
| Guildford | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Crawley | 1.4 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| East Surrey | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Horsham next door has 51 MW waiting, more than Dorking and Horley's 0.6 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.