CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
Banbury
Banbury has 10 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 3,600 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,519 homes.
Ranks 228 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanwell Estate, Main Street - Solar FarmElgin Energy | Solar | 15,000 homes 40 MW |
Waiting 1.0 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Cherwell Council |
| Land North of Hill FarmGreenheath Farming | Solar | 3,200 homes 8.9 MW |
Approved 6 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
| Units D E & F, Beaumont Road - Solar PanelsAberla Energy | Solar | 800 homes 2.2 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Cherwell Council |
What else is in the briefing
- All 3 projects, each with its planning reference and the organisation that holds the next decision
- Every approval a project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- How Banbury compares with its neighbouring constituencies
- 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
No account needed for any of this:
the full seat page with every figure,
the method and sources,
and this constituency's raw data.
The account covers the packaged briefing only.