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Southend West and Leigh

MP: David Burton-Sampson (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Southend West and Leigh has no significant clean power approved and waiting to be built, and none running. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,928 homes.

Ranks 569 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Progress Road, Eastwood - Urban Reserve Flexible Energy FacilityAMP Energy Services Limited Landfill Gas 4 MW Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 21/01936/FUL

Compared with its neighbours

ConstituencyApproved, not builtRunningPaid to switch off
Southend West and Leigh 0 MW0 MWnot visible
Castle Point 1 MW0 MWnot visible
Southend East and Rochford 51 MW2.5 MWnot visible
Rayleigh and Wickford 80 MW5 MWnot visible

Rayleigh and Wickford next door has 80 MW waiting, more than Southend West and Leigh's 0 MW.

The rest of the briefing

  • Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
  • Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
  • 1 story angles for local reporting
  • A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
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