CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North West Hampshire
North West Hampshire has 4.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,686 homes.
Ranks 266 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Farm, Sherborne - Solar FarmSolar 2 Limited | Solar | 28 MW10,000 homes | Waiting 13 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Basingstoke and Deane Council · planning ref 25/01612/FUL |
| Strattons Farm, Newbury Road - Solar PV FarmAnglo Renewables (AR Kingsclere Limited) | Solar | 23 MW8,300 homes | Waiting 2.3 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Basingstoke and Deane Council · planning ref 24/00852/FUL |
| Lower Wyke Farm, St Mary Bourne - Solar FarmBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 21 MW7,600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02000/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North West Hampshire | 4.7 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| Winchester | 19 MW | 58 MW | not visible |
| East Hampshire | 78 MW | 56 MW | not visible |
| Basingstoke | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| North East Hampshire | 168 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Newbury | 5.4 MW | 18 MW | not visible |
North East Hampshire next door has 168 MW waiting, more than North West Hampshire's 4.7 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.