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Normanton and Hemsworth
Normanton and Hemsworth has 3.7 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 1,300 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £4.1m across the constituency's 44,504 homes.
Ranks 283 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Fox Way - Battery StorageHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Waiting 4.1 years for a planning decisionWho can move it: Wakefield Council |
| Neil Fox Way - Battery StorageHarmony Energy Limited | Battery | 100 MW |
Applied in 2025, still waiting for a decisionWho can move it: Wakefield Council |
| Cooksland Farm, Old Snydale -Battery Energy StorageYlem Energy Limited / Root Power | Battery | 50 MW |
Approved less than a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company |
What else is in the briefing
- All 8 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 Normanton and Hemsworth 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.