CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Southend East and Rochford
Southend East and Rochford has 51 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, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,921 homes.
Ranks 127 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt Hall Farm, Lark Hill Road - Solar Photovoltaic Farm.Green Switch Capital Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 2.9 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Rochford Council · planning ref 23/00733/FUL |
| Canewdon Road, Canewdon - Solar Photovoltaic FarmLow Carbon UK Solar Investment Company 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 23/00407/FUL |
| Campfield Road, Shoeburyness - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsEden Sustainable Limited | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01874/GPDS |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southend East and Rochford | 51 MW | 2.5 MW | not visible |
| Southend West and Leigh | 0 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | 80 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Rayleigh and Wickford next door has 80 MW waiting, more than Southend East and Rochford's 51 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.