CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Redditch
Redditch has 3.3 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,200 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,332 homes.
Ranks 292 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheaten Hill Farm - BESSBoom Power Limited | Battery | 400 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Redditch Council · planning ref 25/00888/FUL |
| Rectory Farm, Rectory Lane - Battery StorageTag Energy | Battery | 30 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref W/22/02326/FUL |
| Thorlux Lighting Moons, Merse Road - Solar PV systemFW Thorpe PLC | Solar | 1.4 MW500 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00027/FUL |
| Worcester Road, Wychbold - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsWebbs Garden Centre | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref W/22/00583/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redditch | 3.3 MW | 5.2 MW | not visible |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 134 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| Droitwich and Evesham | 67 MW | 122 MW | not visible |
| Bromsgrove | 51 MW | 0.7 MW | not visible |
| Wyre Forest | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Stratford-on-Avon next door has 134 MW waiting, more than Redditch's 3.3 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.