CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Warrington North
Warrington North 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, £3.8m across the constituency's 41,782 homes.
Ranks 223 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duckinfield Farm, Hurst Lane - Solar FarmNoventum Power Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/00969/FULM |
| The Hut Group, Skyline Drive - Solar ArrayOlympus Power | Solar | 6.8 MW2,500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/00626/PA14J |
| Silver Lane, Risley - Solar FarmBiffa Waste Services Limited | Solar | 5 MW1,800 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2022/42796 |
| Lockheed Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar panelsBrakes Group | Solar | 1.8 MW600 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2023/00681/FULM |
| The Hut Group, Skyline Drive - Solar Photovoltaic PanelsLondon Metric Property Plc | Solar | 1.5 MW500 homes | Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2025/01376/PA14J |
| Fairchild Road, Burtonwood & Westbrook - Solar PanelsMountpark Logistics | Solar | 1 MW400 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 2023/00837/FUL |
Plus 1 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warrington North | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Tatton | 5.2 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Warrington South | 1.2 MW | 6.8 MW | not visible |
| Altrincham and Sale West | 0.9 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| St Helens South and Whiston | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stretford and Urmston | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
Warrington North 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
- 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.