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Planning Atlas · Tower Hamlets · Political

Political.

Who runs Tower Hamlets, 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 keyLabourAspireConservativeGreenLiberal Democrat
Tap a ward on the map to focus this page on it — its committee members and votes surface here and below.
Tower Hamlets · political map
Approval rate — by ward
Ward controlLabourAspireConservative
Composition — current membership records
Political control
Labour[1]
majority
Seats
48 / 78[1]
48 Labour · 26 Aspire · 2 Conservative · 1 Green · 1 Liberal Democrat
Committee chair
not identified in the minutes yet
Last / next election
2022 · 2026[4]
four-year cycle, all-out
Council composition · 78 councillors[1]
Labour
48 · 62%
Aspire
26 · 33%
Conservative
2 · 3%
Green
1 · 1%
Liberal Democrat
1 · 1%

The planning record, 20202026

Approval rate[2]Housing delivery — not yet sourced
All years · Tower Hamlets
85%95%2022 election [4]2026 election [4]2020202120222023202420252026

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 %
Labour20
73 for · 28 against
72%
Conservative2
0 for · 8 against
0%
Aspire4
6 for · 1 against
86%
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
Mufeedah Bustin LabourIsland GardensActive21🔒🔒subscribersAbdul Mukit MBE Labourto 2022-0316🔒🔒subscribersLeema Qureshi Labourto 2022-0310🔒🔒subscribersRachel Blake LabourBow Eastto 2019-117🔒🔒subscribersKahar Chowdhury Labourto 2021-086🔒🔒subscribersAndrew Wood Conservativeto 2021-015🔒🔒subscribersDipa Das Labourto 2021-015🔒🔒subscribersGabriela Salva Macallan Labourto 2020-125🔒🔒subscribersIqbal Hossain AspireLansburyActive4🔒🔒subscribersMarc Francis LabourBow EastActive4🔒🔒subscribersDan Tomlinson Labourto 2022-033🔒🔒subscribersDenise Jones Labourto 2019-063🔒🔒subscribersEhtasham Haque Labourto 2019-113🔒🔒subscribersPeter Golds ConservativeIsland Gardensto 2023-083🔒🔒subscribersSabina Akhtar LabourStepney Greento 2024-043🔒🔒subscribersShah Ameen Labourto 2019-113🔒🔒subscribersSirajul Islam LabourBethnal Green Eastto 2023-083🔒🔒subscribersAmin Rahman AspireBethnal Green WestActive2🔒🔒subscribersDavid Edgar Labourto 2022-032🔒🔒subscribersKamrul Hussain AspireWhitechapelto 2024-042🔒🔒subscribersMotin Uz-Zaman Labourto 2022-032🔒🔒subscribersPuru Miah Labourto 2021-042🔒🔒subscribersRajib Ahmed Labourto 2020-092🔒🔒subscribersShad Chowdhury Labourto 2021-042🔒🔒subscribersTarik Khan Labourto 2022-032🔒🔒subscribersSuluk Ahmed AspireSpitalfields & Banglatownto 2023-041🔒🔒subscribers
Sources & method
  1. [1]Party composition, control and seats — Tower Hamlets membership records (current state; historical composition not yet loaded).
  2. [2]Approval rate by year — Tower Hamlets published decision record, aggregated to calendar year. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee roster, chair and per-councillor votes — published Tower Hamlets planning-committee minutes; matched across inconsistent name forms and still being completed. · committee record
  4. [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.