CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Shropshire
North Shropshire has 11 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,469 homes.
Ranks 226 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rednal Airfield, West Felton - Battery Energy StoragePrivate Developer | Battery | 300 MW | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01250/FUL |
| Belton Farm, Belton - Solar Pv SystemConrad Energy (Developments) Limited | Solar | 2.2 MW800 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref 23/05100/FUL |
| Glovers Meadow - Ground Mounted Solar ArrayShropshire Council | Solar | 2 MW700 homes | Waiting 2.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Shropshire Council · planning ref 24/02237/FUL |
| Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen- Solar ArrayRobert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSTrust | Solar | 1.9 MW700 homes | Refused by Shropshire Council in 2025Who can move it: Shropshire Council · planning ref 25/02807/FUL |
| Manor Farm, Crickheath - Solar ArrayManor Farm | Solar | 1.8 MW700 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/03062/FUL |
| Berllandeg Farm, Rhoswiel - Solar PanelsIgreen Energy | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/01572/FUL |
Plus 7 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shropshire | 11 MW | 80 MW | not visible |
| Shrewsbury | 25 MW | 37 MW | not visible |
| Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr | 151 MW | 181 MW | not visible |
| Wrexham | 16 MW | 23 MW | not visible |
| The Wrekin | 221 MW | 75 MW | not visible |
| Stafford | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
The Wrekin next door has 221 MW waiting, more than North Shropshire's 11 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.