CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
East Surrey
East Surrey has 11 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 4,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,976 homes.
Ranks 221 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haxted Mead, Lingfield - Solar FarmHaxted Mead Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Tandridge Council · planning ref 2025/644 |
| Caterham Bypass - Battery Energy StorageYlem Energy Limited | Battery | 12 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2023/1430 |
| Gaywood Solar FarmKYBO Solar Limited | Solar | 11 MW3,900 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/00505/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Surrey | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Sussex Weald | 1.1 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Dorking and Horley | 0.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| East Grinstead and Uckfield | 6.1 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Crawley | 1.4 MW | 0.2 MW | not visible |
| Reigate | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
East Surrey 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
- 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.