Planning committee.
Tower Hamlets's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 82% of the 125 decisions that reached it, hears just 0.9% of decisions to committee, and of the 16 refusals traced in recent minutes, 5 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]
Committee refusals of officer-recommended approvals traced in minutes across all 33 boroughs, by year. Tower Hamlets's own officer-alignment trend needs the officer recommendation on each committee item — a minutes-level source still being loaded.
Share of the 92 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.
The policies most often cited on Tower Hamlets 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.
282 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Tower Hamlets. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
How Tower Hamlets applies its planning policies →Show all 21 rows
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.
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.
Committee membership for Tower Hamlets is still being matched from the minutes — no member-level voting records to show yet.
The committee figures on this page are derived from Tower Hamlets'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 ↗Committee membership for Tower Hamlets is still being matched from the minutes.
Still being matched from the minutes.
- [1]Committee vs delegated split, committee approval rate and every committee-decided application — the decision-level field on Tower Hamlets's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
- [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Tower Hamlets membership records and published planning-committee minutes; member matching across inconsistent name forms is still being completed.
- [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