CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Manchester Withington
Manchester Withington has 2.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 37,737 homes.
Ranks 334 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tesco Burnage StoreTesco Stores | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 125482/P14J/2019 |
| Tesco Store East DidsburyTesco Stores | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 125481/P14J/2019 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Withington | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Cheadle | 1.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stockport | 1.2 MW | 0.3 MW | not visible |
| Gorton and Denton | 0.5 MW | 1.9 MW | not visible |
| Wythenshawe and Sale East | 2.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stretford and Urmston | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Wythenshawe and Sale East next door has 2.4 MW waiting, more than Manchester Withington's 2.1 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.