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Where batteries were
refused planning

Constituencies ranked by battery capacity refused planning in the last five years — 5.7 GW nationally, against 72.1 GW approved and still not built. A battery takes about eighteen months to build; the wires take a decade. What batteries do →

Seats with refused batteries

MW refused, five years to July 2026 · planning database · download CSV

#	Constituency	MW refused	Projects
1	Honiton and Sidmouth	520	5
2	Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard	350	1
3	Carlisle	340	1
4	Ashford	300	2
5	Dartford	300	1
6	Warrington South	250	1
7	Burnley	245	3
8	North East Hampshire	215	2
9	South Dorset	210	2
10	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	207	2
11	Lichfield	200	1
12	Old Bexley and Sidcup	200	1
13	Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber	113	3
14	Stroud	100	1
15	Cannock Chase	100	1
16	Maldon	100	1
17	Kingswinford and South Staffordshire	100	1
18	Henley and Thame	100	1
19	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	100	1
20	Staffordshire Moorlands	99	1
21	Rutherglen	90	2
22	Ely and East Cambridgeshire	90	1
23	Rossendale and Darwen	85	1
24	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	75	3
25	Washington and Gateshead South	71	1
26	East Kilbride and Strathaven	70	2
27	Kenilworth and Southam	70	2
28	Frome and East Somerset	60	1
29	Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire	60	2
30	Horsham	57	1
31	South Northamptonshire	50	1
32	East Hampshire	50	1
33	Cardiff South and Penarth	50	1
34	North East Hertfordshire	50	1
35	Gordon and Buchan	50	1
36	Aberdeenshire North and Moray East	50	1
37	Basildon and Billericay	50	1
38	Wells and Mendip Hills	50	1
39	Aberdeen North	50	1
40	Southampton Itchen	50	1
41	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	50	1
42	Perth and Kinross-shire	50	1
43	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry	50	1
44	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	45	2
45	North East Cambridgeshire	30	2
46	Angus and Perthshire Glens	18	1
47	Meriden and Solihull East	15	1
48	North East Fife	12	1
49	Easington	10	1
50	Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey	10	1
51	Broadland and Fakenham	10	1
52	South Holland and The Deepings	10	1
53	Corby and East Northamptonshire	9	1
54	Beaconsfield	7	1
55	Clacton	3	1
56	Windsor	2	1
57	Witney	2	1
58	Bedford	1	5
59	North Bedfordshire	1	1
60	Smethwick	0	2
61	Milton Keynes Central	0	2
62	Milton Keynes North	0	2
63	North Somerset	0	2
64	Gillingham and Rainham	0	1
65	Banbury	0	1
66	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	0	1
67	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	0	1
68	Mid Bedfordshire	0	1
69	Knowsley	0	1
70	Farnham and Bordon	0	1
71	Newton Abbot	0	1
72	Didcot and Wantage	0	1
73	Daventry	0	1
74	Buckingham and Bletchley	0	1
75	Ceredigion Preseli	0	1
76	Gower	0	1
77	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	0	1
78	Neath and Swansea East	0	1
79	New Forest West	0	1
80	Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge	0	1
81	Telford	0	1
82	North East Derbyshire	0	1
83	Warwick and Leamington	0	1
84	Weston-super-Mare	0	1
85	Wolverhampton West	0	1
86	Sevenoaks	0	1
87	North West Essex	0	1
88	Waveney Valley	0	1
89	Yeovil	0	0
90	Bradford South	0	0
91	Aberafan Maesteg	0	0
92	Clwyd North	0	0
93	Walsall and Bloxwich	0	0
94	Bolsover	0	0
95	Tunbridge Wells	0	0
96	Thornbury and Yate	0	0
97	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	0	0
98	Romsey and Southampton North	0	0
99	Chester South and Eddisbury	0	0
100	Exmouth and Exeter East	0	0
101	Weald of Kent	0	0
102	Herne Bay and Sandwich	0	0
103	West Worcestershire	0	0
104	Dumfries and Galloway	0	0
105	Westmorland and Lonsdale	0	0
106	Winchester	0	0
107	Airdrie and Shotts	0	0
108	Newport East	0	0

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