CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Tonbridge
Tonbridge has 11 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,900 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,706 homes.
Ranks 225 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idleigh Court Road, New Ash Green - Solar ArrayEvolution Power | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Sevenoaks Council · planning ref 24/03422/FUL |
| Idleigh Court Road, New Ash Green - Solar ArrayEvolution Power | Battery | 15 MW | Waiting 18 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Sevenoaks Council · planning ref 24/03422/FUL |
| Offham Landfill Site - Solar PV ArrayInfinis Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,700 homes | Under constructionWho can move it: the developer · earliest connection 2027 (in construction) · planning ref KCC/TM/0090/2021 |
| Stangate West Landfill Site, Quarry Hill Road - Solar Park & BatteryInfinis Solar Development Limited | Solar | 6 MW2,200 homes | Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Tonbridge and Malling Council · planning ref KCC/TM/0064/2026 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonbridge | 11 MW | 4.7 MW | not visible |
| Sussex Weald | 1.1 MW | 16 MW | not visible |
| Tunbridge Wells | 54 MW | 31 MW | not visible |
| Weald of Kent | 51 MW | 30 MW | not visible |
| East Surrey | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Maidstone and Malling | 0.4 MW | 3 MW | not visible |
Tunbridge Wells next door has 54 MW waiting, more than Tonbridge's 11 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
- 2 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.