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Leeds South West and Morley
Leeds South West and Morley has 5 MW of renewables running, enough for 1,800 homes over a year, and nothing large waiting in the planning queue. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.9m across the constituency's 42,195 homes.
Ranks 463 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howden Clough Landfill, Howden Clough Road - Solar FBiffa Waste Services Limited | Solar | 900 homes 2.4 MW |
Applied in 2026, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Leeds Council |
| Former Howden Clough, Howden Clough Road - Battery UBiffa Waste Services Limited | Battery | 2 MW |
Approved 3 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 2 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 Leeds South West and Morley 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.