East Hampshire
East Hampshire has 78 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 28,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 38,262 homes. A 50 MW battery was refused planning here in 2024; while discharging it could have supplied about 175,000 homes.
Ranks 86 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovedean Lane - Battery Energy Storage SystemYlem Energy Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Refused by East Hampshire Council in 2024Who can move it: East Hampshire Council · planning ref SDNP/24/03112/FUL |
| Lovedean, Denmead - Solar farm & Battery storageLovedean Green Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 4.4 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hampshire Council · planning ref 58038/003 |
| Copse Close Solar FarmCopse Close Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 55506/002 |
| Gaston Lane, Farringdon - Solar Farm & Battery StorageQuintas Energy UK Limited | Solar | 44 MW16,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: East Hampshire Council · planning ref EHDC-25-0716-FUL |
| Preston Farm, Preston Candover - Solar PV ArrayBSR Energy | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/03398/FUL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Hampshire | 78 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Arundel and South Downs | 0 MW | 21 MW | not visible |
| Farnham and Bordon | 1.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Havant | 1.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Chichester | 19 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| Fareham and Waterlooville | 11 MW | 48 MW | not visible |
East Hampshire 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
- 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.