CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Poplar and Limehouse
Poplar and Limehouse has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £5.2m across the constituency's 56,173 homes.
Ranks 550 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm - Solar PanelsTotalenergies Renewables Uk Limited (Hedgehog Grove Solar Farm) | Solar | 98 MW36,000 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: the Planning Inspectorate (it decides nationally significant projects) · planning ref 26/00440/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar and Limehouse | 0.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Cities of London and Westminster | 2.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| West Ham and Beckton | 1.4 MW | 3.2 MW | not visible |
| Bethnal Green and Stepney | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stratford and Bow | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Cities of London and Westminster next door has 2.3 MW waiting, more than Poplar and Limehouse's 0.2 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.