CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Ossett and Denby Dale
Ossett and Denby Dale has 52 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 19,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,474 homes.
Ranks 124 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Ings Farm, Middlestown - Solar Photovoltaic FarmBoom Developments Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/02792/FUL |
| Haigh Lane, Woolley Edge Lane - Solar FarmBoom Developments Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/02397/FUL |
| New Hall Farm, New Hall Lane - Solar FarmDowning Energy Development Company Limited | Solar | 22 MW8,100 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01113/FUL |
| Owlers Farm, Wakefield Road - Solar FarmIBE Flushdyke Limited | Solar | 20 MW7,300 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 25/00579/FUL |
Plus 2 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ossett and Denby Dale | 52 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 0 MW | 26 MW | not visible |
| Barnsley North | 5.1 MW | 11 MW | not visible |
| Normanton and Hemsworth | 3.7 MW | 2.4 MW | not visible |
| Huddersfield | 5.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Colne Valley | 0.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Ossett and Denby Dale has more approved-and-waiting capacity than any of its neighbouring seats.
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.