CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Salisbury
Salisbury 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 40,264 homes.
Ranks 118 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Down Barn FarmScottish Power Renewables | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 19/10890/FUL |
| Blackthorn Solar FarmEden BD Solar Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wiltshire Council · planning ref PL/2025/03889 |
| Beech Tree Solar FarmLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Co Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2023/10394 |
| Mill Farm, Teffont - Battery Energy StoragePrivate Energy Partners Pty Limited | Battery | 8.5 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2023/08472 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| South West Wiltshire | 74 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| New Forest West | 24 MW | 13 MW | not visible |
| New Forest East | 0.6 MW | 15 MW | not visible |
| Romsey and Southampton North | 118 MW | 165 MW | not visible |
Romsey and Southampton North next door has 118 MW waiting, more than Salisbury's 52 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
- 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.