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Manchester Withington

MP: Jeff Smith (Labour) England Data to July 2026

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 developerTechSizeWhy 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

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Manchester Withington 2.1 MW0 MWnot visible
Cheadle 1.2 MW0 MWnot visible
Stockport 1.2 MW0.3 MWnot visible
Gorton and Denton 0.5 MW1.9 MWnot visible
Wythenshawe and Sale East 2.4 MW0 MWnot visible
Stretford and Urmston 1.8 MW0 MWnot 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
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