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Planning committee.

Lambeth's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 95% of the 153 decisions that reached it, hears just 0.7% 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 majority34 members153 committee decisions2020–26
Lambeth · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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153
Committee decisions
2020–26
34
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. Lambeth'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: 51% — click to filter the pageApproval under Reg 3 Councils own dev: 13%Advertisement Consent: 9%Listed Building Consent: 7% — click to filter the pageOther: 19%
Full Planning Permission51%
Approval under Reg 3 Councils own dev13%
Advertisement Consent9%
Listed Building Consent7%
Other19%

Share of the 152 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 ⚠ unverified1 · 23rd 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 Lambeth 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.

NPPF534×
Q5, Q8, Q11 and Q22 of the Lambeth Local Plan (2021)148×
Q2 of the Lambeth Local Plan (2021)138×
Q2, Q5, Q8, Q11 and Q22 of the Lambeth Local Plan 2020-2035125×
D6 of the London Plan (2021)121×
Q5, Q8 and Q11 of the Lambeth Local Plan (2021)114×
Q2, Q5, Q8 and Q11 of the Lambeth Local Plan (2021)96×
T1, T3 and T6 of the Lambeth Local Plan (2021)94×

1,564 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Lambeth. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

How Lambeth 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
Joanne Simpson2787n=284Malcolm Clark1910n=180Jessica Leigh715n=76Diogo Costa810n=70Scott Ainslie755n=66Martin Bailey · Chair710n=50Ben Kind470n=46Timothy Windle511n=46Emma Nye342n=33Ibrahim Dogus330n=26Scarlett O'Hara2210n=20David Bridson200n=19Saleha Jaffer220n=15John-Paul Ennis150n=11Rebecca Spencer · Chair100n=7Liz Atkins60n=6Paul Valentine136n=5Alison Inglis-Jones42n=4Issa Issa51n=4Paul Gadsby43n=4Sarbaz Barznji30n=3Andrew Collins23n=0Bryn Scott00n=0David Ford00n=0Dom Armstrong00n=0Elizabeth Fraser00n=0Jacqueline Bond00n=0Kita Ogden00n=0Olga FitzRoy24n=0Scarlett O'Hara00n=0Simon Cordon00n=0Tom Swaine-Jameson00n=0Verity McGivern10n=0Viktor Westerdahl00n=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 Lambeth'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
21/04939/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-11-10
21/04356/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2024-12-20
21/04939/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-11-10
21/04356/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2024-12-20
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Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteePlanning Applications Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members34
Decisions153 (2020–26)
Committee approval95%
Delegated99.3%
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 Lambeth
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 Lambeth's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Lambeth 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.