They are already struggling to connect power to the grid. Then they want another 1,367,880 homes.

By district — power still waiting to connect

At grid supply points serving these districts, about 12,061 MW of generation and storage across 33 projects is not yet built — with connection dates from 2026 (median 2032). That is the supply side already stuck. Approving another 1,367,880 homes over thirty years adds demand on top.

Source: NESO Transmission Entry Capacity (TEC) register: megawatts of generation and storage not yet Built at East Anglia grid supply points mapped to districts — evidence the supply side is already waiting to connect (not UKPN secondary substation headroom — that portal requires registration).

Questions

Isn't the queue about wind farms and batteries, not housing?

Yes — and that is the point. The figures show generation and storage already waiting years to connect. Housing is the other half of the problem: another 1,367,880 homes over thirty years add demand while that supply is still stuck. Local network headroom is a separate constraint again, and that one bites villages directly.

Won't connections reform fix it?

It should improve the supply queue, and we want it to. But reform sorts what is strategically important and ready. It does not turn four hundred village estates into a reason to reinforce the network, and it does not stop us approving the homes while the power is still waiting.

Isn't this an argument against heat pumps and EVs?

The opposite. Electrification is the right direction and it means more load per home. That is precisely why connecting supply — and where we put the homes — matters more than it used to, not less.

So you're just NIMBYs.

We want homes built where the substation gets built too, on a grid that can actually take the power. Nobody has ever reinforced a network for a hundred and fifty houses.

Where would you put them instead?

Somewhere large enough to be planned for as a grid project — with its own reinforcement — rather than as a slow leak of local headroom while the supply queue runs into the 2030s.

Where do your figures come from?

NESO Transmission Entry Capacity register for grid supply points serving these districts: megawatts and effective years for generation and storage projects that are not yet built. That is the supply-side connection struggle. Housing totals use the government's standard method. UKPN secondary headroom tables need a free portal login we have not wired in yet. If we have got something wrong, email corrections@stopurbansprawl.uk and we will fix it and say what changed.