Leeds South West and Morley: renewable energy

Leeds South West and Morley has 5 MW of renewables running, enough for 1,800 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,195 homes.

Ranks 463 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developer	Tech	Size	Why it is stuck
Howden Clough Landfill, Howden Clough Road - Solar FarmBiffa Waste Services Limited	Solar	2.4 MW900 homes	Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Leeds Council · planning ref 25/07519/FU
Former Howden Clough, Howden Clough Road - Battery UnitsBiffa Waste Services Limited	Battery	2 MW	Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/06993/FU

Compared with its neighbours

Constituency	Approved, not built	Running	Paid to switch off
Leeds South West and Morley	0.7 MW	5 MW	not visible
Ossett and Denby Dale	52 MW	0 MW	not visible
Dewsbury and Batley	50 MW	0 MW	not visible
Spen Valley	0.3 MW	0 MW	not visible
Wakefield and Rothwell	3.4 MW	0 MW	not visible
Bradford South	2 MW	0 MW	not visible

Ossett and Denby Dale next door has 52 MW waiting, more than Leeds South West and Morley's 0.7 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.