Planning Atlas · Merton · Political
Political.
Who runs Merton, and what its planning record did over the loaded years. Composition and control from the membership records; the approval line from the borough's own decisions. The individual members and their votes sit in the committee record.
Party keyLabourLiberal DemocratConservativeIndependent
Tap a ward on the map to focus this page on it — its committee members and votes surface here and below.
Merton · political map
Approval rate — by ward
Ward controlLiberal DemocratConservativeLabourIndependent
Composition — current membership records
Committee chair
—
not identified in the minutes yet
Council composition · 57 councillors[1]
31 · 54%
17 · 30%
7 · 12%
2 · 4%
The planning record, 2020–2026
Approval rate[2]Housing delivery — not yet sourced
All years · Merton
Hover to preview any year; click to set the year shown on the map — the wards recolour to that year's own approval rates. The line is unannotated: any relationship between elections and the planning record is left for the reader. Which party controlled the council in earlier cycles isn't loaded yet, so no control ribbon is drawn — nothing is guessed.
Committee votes by party — all loaded minutes
Per-member detail →How each party's members on the planning committee have voted on the applications in the loaded minutes, aggregated. Per-year splits need dated vote records — not yet loaded, so no year filter is offered here.[3]
PartyMembersFor / againstFor %
Liberal Democrat1226%
44 for · 126 against
Labour1756%
71 for · 56 against
Conservative310%
5 for · 43 against
Independent225%
1 for · 3 against
Bar colour = party (identity only). Solid = for · faded = against. Abstentions aren't separately coded in the loaded minutes yet.
Councillor voting — click a name to see every vote[3]
Councillor
Ward
Active
Total
For
Against
Stance
Sources & method
- [1]Party composition, control and seats — Merton membership records (current state; historical composition not yet loaded).
- [2]Approval rate by year — Merton published decision record, aggregated to calendar year. · methodology
- [3]Committee roster, chair and per-councillor votes — published Merton planning-committee minutes; matched across inconsistent name forms and still being completed. · committee record
- [4]London borough election dates — statutory all-out elections every four years. · London Elects
A record, not a ranking — no editorial judgement is applied. Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.