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Where batteries were
refused planning

Constituencies ranked by battery capacity refused planning in the last five years — 5.6 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	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	207	2
10	Old Bexley and Sidcup	200	1
11	Lichfield	200	1
12	Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber	113	3
13	Maldon	100	1
14	Henley and Thame	100	1
15	Stroud	100	1
16	Kingswinford and South Staffordshire	100	1
17	Cannock Chase	100	1
18	Dwyfor Meirionnydd	100	1
19	Staffordshire Moorlands	99	1
20	Rutherglen	90	2
21	Ely and East Cambridgeshire	90	1
22	Rossendale and Darwen	85	1
23	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	75	3
24	Washington and Gateshead South	71	1
25	East Kilbride and Strathaven	70	2
26	Kenilworth and Southam	70	2
27	Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire	60	2
28	Frome and East Somerset	60	1
29	South Dorset	60	1
30	Horsham	57	1
31	North East Hertfordshire	50	1
32	East Hampshire	50	1
33	South Northamptonshire	50	1
34	Cardiff South and Penarth	50	1
35	Basildon and Billericay	50	1
36	Aberdeen North	50	1
37	Gordon and Buchan	50	1
38	Aberdeenshire North and Moray East	50	1
39	Arbroath and Broughty Ferry	50	1
40	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	50	1
41	Perth and Kinross-shire	50	1
42	Wells and Mendip Hills	50	1
43	Southampton Itchen	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	Broadland and Fakenham	10	1
51	Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey	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	North Somerset	0	2
61	Milton Keynes North	0	2
62	Milton Keynes Central	0	2
63	Smethwick	0	2
64	Banbury	0	1
65	Neath and Swansea East	0	1
66	New Forest West	0	1
67	Mid Bedfordshire	0	1
68	Newton Abbot	0	1
69	Farnham and Bordon	0	1
70	Gillingham and Rainham	0	1
71	Didcot and Wantage	0	1
72	Daventry	0	1
73	Knowsley	0	1
74	Buckingham and Bletchley	0	1
75	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	0	1
76	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	0	1
77	Gower	0	1
78	Telford	0	1
79	Waveney Valley	0	1
80	Warwick and Leamington	0	1
81	North East Derbyshire	0	1
82	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	0	1
83	Ceredigion Preseli	0	1
84	Wolverhampton West	0	1
85	Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge	0	1
86	North West Essex	0	1
87	Sevenoaks	0	1
88	Weston-super-Mare	0	1
89	Bradford South	0	0
90	Chester South and Eddisbury	0	0
91	Herne Bay and Sandwich	0	0
92	Bolsover	0	0
93	Exmouth and Exeter East	0	0
94	Westmorland and Lonsdale	0	0
95	West Worcestershire	0	0
96	Weald of Kent	0	0
97	Walsall and Bloxwich	0	0
98	Thornbury and Yate	0	0
99	Tunbridge Wells	0	0
100	Romsey and Southampton North	0	0
101	Winchester	0	0
102	Dumfries and Galloway	0	0
103	Yeovil	0	0
104	Airdrie and Shotts	0	0
105	Aberafan Maesteg	0	0
106	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	0	0
107	Clwyd North	0	0
108	Newport East	0	0

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