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London Borough of Havering

Planning committee.

Most planning decisions in Havering are settled by officers under delegation. Committee-level decisions are not yet visible in the loaded register — membership and voting records from the minutes are below.[1]

Reform UK minority29 members2020–26
Havering · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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0
Committee decisions
2020–26
29
Members
Reform UK minority
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. Havering'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]

No committee-decided applications on record yet for Havering.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes16 · 19th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified7 · 16th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal0 · 28th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

Havering's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage right now, so refusal citations aren't reliable enough to publish as a table — an estimate would be worse than nothing.

How Havering applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward

No committee-level decisions are recorded for Havering in the loaded register, so there is no ward breakdown to show yet.

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
Carol Smith4115n=27Philippa Crowder3711n=22Reg Whitney4118n=20Robby Misir4817n=20Ray Best177n=16Stephanie Nunn1126n=14John Tyler1221n=13Matthew Stanton317n=12Gerry O'Sullivan308n=11Bryan Vincent360n=10Dilip Patel74n=9Graham Williamson411n=8Timothy Ryan81n=8Christine Smith131n=5Jane Keane56n=5Keith Darvill66n=5Maggie Themistocli41n=3Paul McGeary1021n=3Jacqueline McArdle31n=2John Crowder53n=1Alex Donald00n=0Angelica Ola00n=0Gary Payne00n=0Geoff Burgess00n=0Iurie Bivol00n=0Kevin Ayres00n=0Michael Fisher00n=0Russell Smith00n=0Sathya Maddasani00n=0

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 Havering'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

No committee-level decisions are recorded for Havering in the loaded register. As more of the register loads, committee decisions will appear here.

Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteeStrategic Planning Committee
ControlReform UK minority
Members29
Decisions0
Committee approval
Delegated
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 Havering
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 Havering's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Havering 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.