CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Widnes and Halewood
Widnes and Halewood has 4.8 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,700 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 39,758 homes.
Ranks 264 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Michaels Road, Ditton Road - Battery StorageShell Green Limited | Battery | 14 MW | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00623/FUL |
| Jaguar Land Rover Jaguar Plant, North Road - Solar PanelsJaguar Land Rover | Solar | 9.3 MW3,400 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00659/PDS |
| Ditton Road - Solar MicrogridHalton Borough Council | Solar | 4 MW1,500 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 24/00234/HBCFUL |
| Hedco, Desoto Road - Solar panelsPSD Construct Limtied | Solar | 3.5 MW1,300 homes | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 22/00276/FUL |
| Liverpool John Lennon Airport - Solar FarmLiverpool Airport Limited | Solar | 3 MW1,100 homes | Refused by Halton Council in 2022Who can move it: Halton Council · planning ref 22/00019/PLD |
| Ford Halewood Transmissions Spekere, Boulevard - Solar ArrayOn Site Energy Limited | Solar | 1.3 MW500 homes | Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01899/FUL |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widnes and Halewood | 4.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Liverpool Garston | 1.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Warrington South | 1.2 MW | 6.8 MW | not visible |
| St Helens South and Whiston | 2.1 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Knowsley | 1.5 MW | 0.8 MW | not visible |
Widnes and Halewood 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.