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Manchester Withington

MP: Jeff Smith (Labour) England Data to July 2026

Manchester Withington has 2.1 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 800 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.5m across the constituency's 37,737 homes.

Ranks 334 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.

What is stuck, and why

Project and developerTechSizeWhy it is stuck
Tesco Burnage StoreTesco Stores Solar 400 homes
1 MW
Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company
Tesco Store East DidsburyTesco Stores Solar 400 homes
1 MW
Approved 7 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company

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