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Planning committee.

Camden's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 96% of the 596 decisions that reached it, hears just 2.3% of decisions to committee, and of the 8 refusals traced in recent minutes, 2 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Labour majority3 members596 committee decisions2020–26
Camden · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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596
Committee decisions
2020–26
3
Members
Labour majority
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
Public planning-committee records, minutes and decision notices. Conduct in an official capacity only.
Members refusing officer-recommended approvals — London-wide[3]Dashed line = average per year
avg 4492016302017212018382019652020552021582022462023512024702025

Committee refusals of officer-recommended approvals traced in minutes across all 33 boroughs, by year. Camden's own officer-alignment trend needs the officer recommendation on each committee item — a minutes-level source still being loaded.

What goes to committee — by application type[1]
Pavement Licence: 37%Full Planning Permission: 28% — click to filter the pageTables and Chairs: 19%Listed Building Consent: 5% — click to filter the pageOther: 12%
Pavement Licence37%
Full Planning Permission28%
Tables and Chairs19%
Listed Building Consent5%
Other12%

Share of the 596 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes8 · 26th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified3 · 22nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal2 · 17th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Camden refusal notices — borough-wide, across officer and committee decisions alike. Which of these specifically drove a committee departure from the officer recommendation needs minute-level coding, not yet loaded, so the two aren't separated below.

A1 and A4 of the Camden Local Plan 20174×
A1, D1 and D2 of the Camden Local Plan 20173×
policies D1 and D2 of the Camden Local Plan 20172×
policies DC1 and DC2 of the Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan 20252×
policy 2 and 3 of the Fortune Green and West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan (2015)2×
policies 7 and 9 of the Fortune Green and West Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan (2015)2×
D3 of the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Plan 20161×
policy D3 of the Kentish Town Neighbourhood Plan 20161×

38 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Camden. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

How Camden applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approved
Camden Town with Primrose Hill
8
7/8
Frognal & Fitzjohns
6
6/6
Cantelowes
3
2/3
Swiss Cottage
2
2/2
Kentish Town
2
2/2
Camden Town with Primrose Hill
8
7/8
Show all 17 rows
Frognal & Fitzjohns
6
6/6
Cantelowes
3
2/3
Swiss Cottage
2
2/2
Kentish Town
2
2/2

Where the 80 committee decisions on record land, 2020–26.[1] Click the map above to explore spatially, or a row to open the ward.

The members — votes recorded

Member by member: the planning-committee votes recorded against each councillor in the published minutes, and how they lean.[2] How often each votes with the officer recommendation needs the officer rec on every item — not yet loaded, so it isn't shown.

MemberForAgainstVotes
Andrew Parkinson04n=4Heather Margaret Johnson120n=4Tom Henry Simon44n=4

Vote counts are matched from the minutes across inconsistent name forms and are still being completed. Click a member for every recorded vote.

Meeting minutes

The committee figures on this page are derived from Camden's published decision notices and committee minutes. Agendas, full minutes and webcasts are published on the council's own democracy website — the source of truth for every meeting.

How these figures are derived — methodology ↗
Recent committee decisions
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
2020/2883/TC
Tables and Chairs
Approved
2020-06-30
2020/2816/P
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2020-06-24
2020/2883/TC
Tables and Chairs
Approved
2020-06-30
2020/2816/P
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2020-06-24
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At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members3
Decisions596 (2020–26)
Committee approval96%
Delegated97.7%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
Related investigations
Committee Watch →
When members overturn the officer line — and how those calls fare at appeal.
The politics of housing in Camden
Council composition, and how each councillor votes on planning applications.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Committee vs delegated split, committee approval rate and every committee-decided application — the decision-level field on Camden's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Camden membership records and published planning-committee minutes; member matching across inconsistent name forms is still being completed.
  3. [3]Refusals against officer advice and appeal outcomes — committee minutes cross-matched with Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions (Committee Watch dataset, all 33 boroughs). · Committee Watch
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.