CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
New Forest West
New Forest West has 24 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 8,500 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.6m across the constituency's 38,657 homes.
Ranks 187 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamer Warren Solar FarmSomerley Estate | Solar | 23 MW8,300 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 20/11073 |
| Walkford Moor Solar Farm, Walkford Lane - Solar FarmBoultbee Brooks (Renewables Costock) Limited | Solar | 15 MW5,400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/11213 |
| Land Adj Harmer Warren QuarryNew Forest Energy (formerly Somerley Estate) | Battery | 10 MW | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 17/11630 |
| Pennington Wastewater Treatment Works, Milford Road - Solar panelsSouthern Water | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Waiting 2.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: New Forest Council · planning ref 24/10306 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Forest West | 24 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| Christchurch | 36 MW | 128 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| Salisbury | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| New Forest East | 0.6 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
North Dorset next door has 97 MW waiting, more than New Forest West's 24 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.