CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Fylde
Fylde has 26 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 9,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,588 homes.
Ranks 179 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowland Farm, Peel Road - Battery Energy Storage FacilityMax Design Consultancy | Battery | 100 MW | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Fylde Council · planning ref 25/0371 |
| Clifton Marsh Farm, Preston New Road - Solar FarmVattenfall | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 2.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Fylde Council · planning ref 24/0414 |
| Smithy Lane, Staining - Solar PV Panels & BESSBoom Power Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Fylde Council · planning ref 26/0023 |
| Smithy Lane, Staining - Solar PV Panels & BESSBoom Power Limited | Battery | 40 MW | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Fylde Council · planning ref 26/0023 |
| West Moss Lane, Higher Ballam - Battery Energy Storage SystemLower 48 Energy BESS Limited | Battery | 30 MW | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/0295 |
| Lawns Solar FarmLightsource Limited | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/0904 |
| Peel Road - Battery StorageEnergi Generation | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/0125 |
| Peel Road Phase 2 - Solar FarmEnergi Generation | Solar | 13 MW4,700 homes | Waiting 17 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Fylde Council · planning ref 25/0113 |
| Cocker Avenue - Energy storage facilityAMP Energy Services Limited | Battery | 7.5 MW | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/00510/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fylde | 26 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
| Blackpool South | 0.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Preston | 0.7 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Blackpool North and Fleetwood | 0 MW | 1.3 MW | not visible |
| Ribble Valley | 1.3 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Lancaster and Wyre | 45 MW | 25 MW | not visible |
Lancaster and Wyre next door has 45 MW waiting, more than Fylde's 26 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.