CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks has 50 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 18,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,299 homes.
Ranks 134 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horton Wood - Solar parkNextPower Horton Wood Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/02599/FUL |
| Chimmens Solar FarmRES Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Sevenoaks Council in 2024Who can move it: Sevenoaks Council · planning ref 23/03181/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sevenoaks | 50 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| East Surrey | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Tonbridge | 11 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Orpington | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Dartford | 4.7 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 0.3 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Sevenoaks 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.