CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
South West Wiltshire
South West Wiltshire has 74 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 27,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 41,867 homes.
Ranks 93 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storridge Road - Solar FarmNextPower SPV 15 Limited | Solar | 31 MW11,000 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2021/10592 |
| Hoopers Pool, Southwick - Solar PanelsHoopers Pool Solar Farm Limited | Solar | 30 MW11,000 homes | Waiting 15 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wiltshire Council · planning ref PL/2025/04328 |
| Whaddon Lane, HilpertonBritish Solar Renewables | Solar | 25 MW9,100 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2021/03061 |
| Whaddon Lane, HilpertonBritish Solar Renewables | Battery | 18 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2021/03061 |
| Codford Solar Farm Phase 4JM Stratton & Company | Solar | 18 MW6,500 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref PL/2023/03024 |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| South West Wiltshire | 74 MW | 71 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| Salisbury | 52 MW | 24 MW | not visible |
| Melksham and Devizes | 51 MW | 133 MW | not visible |
| East Wiltshire | 2.3 MW | 63 MW | not visible |
| Glastonbury and Somerton | 21 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
North Dorset next door has 97 MW waiting, more than South West Wiltshire's 74 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.