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London Borough of Harrow

Planning committee.

Harrow's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 86% of the 89 decisions that reached it, hears just 1.3% of decisions to committee, and of the 60 refusals traced in recent minutes, 5 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Conservative majority25 members89 committee decisions2020–26
Harrow · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
All investigations →
89
Committee decisions
2020–26
25
Members
Conservative 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. Harrow'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 Application: 64% — click to filter the pageHouseholder: 12% — click to filter the pageRemoval/Variation of Condition(s): 6%Listed Building Consent: 4% — click to filter the pageOther: 13%
Full Planning Application64%
Householder12%
Removal/Variation of Condition(s)6%
Listed Building Consent4%
Other13%

Share of the 89 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes60 · 7th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified19 · 8th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal5 · 9th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Harrow 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.

NPPF891×
DM1 of the Harrow Development Management Policies177×
CS1 of the Harrow Core Strategy (2012)67×
DM1 of the Development Management Plan53×
DM9 and DM10 of the Harrow Development Management Policies48×
DM1 and DM26 of the Harrow Development Management Policies40×
DM1 of the Development Management Policies35×
policies SI12 and SI13 of The London Plan (2021)34×

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

How Harrow 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
Marilyn Ashton245301n=407Christopher Baxter290117n=260Anjana Patel163185n=186Ghazanfar Ali24665n=153Simon Brown25461n=142Nitin Parekh14976n=125Zak Oliver Wagman15121n=105Keith Ferry23915n=104Ajay Maru16512n=77Sachin Shah13515n=61Peymana Assad8222n=58Stephen Greek19163n=52Samir Sobhagchand Sumaria773n=51Norman Stevenson3685n=47Salim Chowdhury519n=35Christine Robson8217n=32Kiran Ramchandani5314n=30Bharat Thakker1489n=27Graham Henson540n=17Rashmi Kalu2210n=12Pamela Fitzpatrick226n=11Mina Parmar013n=6Stephen Hickman170n=4Kandy Ann Marie Dolor14n=3Maxine Henson154n=3

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 Harrow'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
P/1019/23
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-03-10
P/0992/23
Householder
Approved
2026-03-06
P/1019/23
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-03-10
P/0992/23
Householder
Approved
2026-03-06
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Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlConservative majority
Members25
Decisions89 (2020–26)
Committee approval86%
Delegated98.7%
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 Harrow
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 Harrow's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Harrow 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.