CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Herefordshire
North Herefordshire has 2.3 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, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,991 homes.
Ranks 325 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oatcroft Fram, Titley - Solar PV ArrayGreen Switch Capital Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Refused by Herefordshire, County of Council in 2024Who can move it: Herefordshire, County of Council · planning ref P233578/F |
| Frome Valley - Solar FarmAnesco | Solar | 21 MW7,500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref P241510/F |
| Sinton End Farm, Acton Beauchamp - Solar FarmSintons End Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Refused by Herefordshire, County of Council in 2025Who can move it: Herefordshire, County of Council · planning ref P243282/F |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Herefordshire | 2.3 MW | 50 MW | not visible |
| Forest of Dean | 64 MW | 98 MW | not visible |
| West Worcestershire | 5.8 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
| Hereford and South Herefordshire | 1.6 MW | 6 MW | not visible |
| Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe | 39 MW | 87 MW | not visible |
| South Shropshire | 112 MW | 78 MW | not visible |
South Shropshire next door has 112 MW waiting, more than North Herefordshire's 2.3 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.