CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
West Dorset
West Dorset has 37 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 13,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.0m across the constituency's 43,222 homes.
Ranks 163 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caswell Farm, Common Lane - Solar FarmGridSource Limited | Solar | 40 MW15,000 homes | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Dorset Council · planning ref P/FUL/2025/03066 |
| Higher Stockbridge FarmVoltalia UK | Solar | 35 MW13,000 homes | Approved 5 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref WD/D/19/003181 |
| Caswell Farm, Common Lane - Battery Energy StorageGridSource Limited | Battery | 20 MW | Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Dorset Council · planning ref P/FUL/2025/03066 |
| Cruxton Farm - Solar FarmEnvironmental Asset Management | Solar | 12 MW4,400 homes | Refused by Dorset Council in 2025Who can move it: Dorset Council · planning ref P/FUL/2025/00485 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Dorset | 37 MW | 83 MW | not visible |
| North Dorset | 97 MW | 94 MW | not visible |
| Honiton and Sidmouth | 39 MW | 77 MW | not visible |
| Yeovil | 48 MW | 44 MW | not visible |
| South Dorset | 73 MW | 73 MW | not visible |
| Glastonbury and Somerton | 21 MW | 95 MW | not visible |
North Dorset next door has 97 MW waiting, more than West Dorset's 37 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.