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Members & votes.

Who sits on each of London’s 33 planning committees, and how every member votes — for, against, and against their own officers’ recommendations. This is the record. The argument about what it means lives in Committee Watch.

32
Committees
551
Members
27,452
Votes on record
46%
Avg override rate
Override rate by committeetap a borough to focus the page →
Fewer → more overrides
⚠ Override rate, “vs officer rec.” and agreement figures below are unverified — pending re-extraction of the officer-recommendation field.

The committee league

One row per borough committee. “Share heard” is the slice of the borough’s decisions that reach committee rather than being delegated to officers; “overrides” is the share of the committee’s refusals, traced in its published minutes, that went against its own officers’ recommendation. Sort any column; expand a row for the full roster.

Officer-agreement rates and per-member intervention breakdowns are subscriber data.Subscribe →

The most active members

Most votes cast
Cllr Tony Belton
670 votes
Most interventions
Cllr Alex Karmel
1,367 interventions
Most votes against officers
Cllr Anjana Patel
138 votes vs recommendation
Longest-serving chair
chair tenure isn’t traced from the minutes yet
Who votes most, who intervenes most, and who votes against their own officers most — subscriber data.Subscribe to unlock →

Where the planning-active members sit

Party make-up of the 551 committee members in this view. Committee seats follow council control — the party balance of the committee usually decides what an override needs to succeed.

Lab Labour · 276 (50%)Con Conservative · 114 (21%)LD Lib Dem · 60 (11%)Grn Green · 28 (5%)Ind Independent / other · 73 (13%)

Committees that override most

The five committees whose traced refusals most often went against their own officers. London average: 46%.

84%
78%
69%
65%
64%
The investigation behind this record
Committee Watch — when committees overrule their own officers.
Read Committee Watch →
Sources & method
  1. [1]Committee rosters, chair status and membership — each borough’s published committee pages and council constitutions.
  2. [2]Voting records and interventions — published committee minutes, matched to decision notices; member matching across inconsistent name forms is still being completed.
  3. [3]Override and overturned-at-appeal rates — officer reports (recommendation) against committee resolutions and PINS appeal outcomes.
This page is a record, not a ranking — every member is reported on the same published minutes. Every figure is computed from the published record; a “—” means the record doesn’t carry that measure yet. Methodology →