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Planning committee.

Croydon's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 73% of the 243 decisions that reached it, hears just 1% of decisions to committee, and of the 71 refusals traced in recent minutes, 20 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Labour majority38 members243 committee decisions2020–26
Croydon · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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243
Committee decisions
2020–26
38
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. Croydon'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]
Full planning permission: 82% — click to filter the pageHouseholder Application: 6% — click to filter the pageOutline planning permission: 5%Consent for works to protected trees: 1%Other: 5%
Full planning permission82%
Householder Application6%
Outline planning permission5%
Consent for works to protected trees1%
Other5%

Share of the 239 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes71 · 4th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified33 · 5th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal20 · 2nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Croydon 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.

NPPF180×
SP8, DM29 and DM30 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018)156×
SP4 and DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018)154×
DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018)142×
D3 of the London Plan (2021)94×
D3 and D4 of the London Plan (2021)92×
SP4 and DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan 201886×
DM10.1, DM10.7 of The Croydon Local Plan 201880×

1,009 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Croydon. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

How Croydon applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward

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
Paul Scott53910n=547Clive Fraser23922n=261Ian Parker12594n=218Leila Ben-Hassel18030n=201Toni Letts1941n=194Chris Clark1834n=162Muhammad Ali1280n=127Gareth Streeter8836n=123Humayun Kabir1173n=119Jason Perry5754n=110Lara Leigh Fish957n=102Scott Roche5738n=93Joy Prince683n=71Sean Fitzsimons4911n=50Helen Redfern488n=48Sherwan Chowdhury456n=45Michael Neal2961n=44Mark Johnson315n=36Jamie Audsley227n=29Appu Dhamodaran Srinivasan260n=26Caragh Skipper191n=20Callton Young200n=19Bernadette Khan180n=18Gayle Gander410n=14Mohammed Amirul Islam140n=14Holly Alice Ramsey181n=13Joseph Lee112n=13Felicity Flynn120n=12Stephen Mann1423n=10Nikhil Sherine Thampi110n=9Andrew Pelling113n=8Luke Daniel Shortland102n=8Lynne Hale1324n=8Richard Chatterjee135n=8Ellily Ponnuthurai90n=6Helen Pollard58n=4Simon Brew2722n=4Yvette Hopley712n=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 Croydon'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
21/01785/FUL
Full planning permission
Approved
2023-04-13
20/01953/FUL
Full planning permission
No determination
2023-01-26
21/01785/FUL
Full planning permission
Approved
2023-04-13
20/01953/FUL
Full planning permission
No determination
2023-01-26
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Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members38
Decisions243 (2020–26)
Committee approval73%
Delegated99%
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 Croydon
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 Croydon's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Croydon 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.