CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Worsley and Eccles
Worsley and Eccles 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, £4.2m across the constituency's 46,032 homes.
Ranks 500 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead Landfill Site, Lower Green Lane - Solar FarmWhitehead Restoration Limited | Solar | 10 MW3,600 homes | Waiting 23 months for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wigan Council · planning ref PA/2024/0759 |
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worsley and Eccles | 0.4 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Warrington North | 11 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Stretford and Urmston | 1.8 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Leigh and Atherton | 0 MW | 0.5 MW | not visible |
| Salford | 0.6 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
| Bolton South and Walkden | 3.6 MW | 5 MW | not visible |
Warrington North next door has 11 MW waiting, more than Worsley and Eccles's 0.4 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.