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Planning committee.

Barking And Dagenham's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 100% of the 6 decisions that reached it, hears just 2.1% of decisions to committee, and of the 27 refusals traced in recent minutes, 0 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Labour majority6 committee decisions2020–26
Barking And Dagenham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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6
Committee decisions
2020–26
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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. Barking And Dagenham'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: 50% — click to filter the pagePrior Approval: New Dwellinghouses on detached blocks of flats: 17% — click to filter the pageRemoval or Variation of a Condition following Grant of Planning Permission: 17%Outline Planning Permission (All Matters Reserved): 17%
Full Planning Permission50%
Prior Approval: New Dwellinghouses on detached blocks of flats17%
Removal or Variation of a Condition following Grant of Planning Permission17%
Outline Planning Permission (All Matters Reserved)17%

Share of the 6 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.

In context — Versus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes27 · 14th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified1 · 23rd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal0 · 28th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Barking And Dagenham 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.

NPPF1,464×
7.1, 7.4 and 7.6 of The London Plan711×
BP8 and BP11 of the Local Development Framework630×
BP8 and BP11 of the LDF Borough Wide Development Plan542×
SP4, DM11 and DM16 of the Draft Local Plan408×
D4 of the London Plan408×
CP3 of the LDF Core Strategy309×
CP2 and CP3 of the Local Development Framework302×

1,056 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Barking And Dagenham. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

How Barking And Dagenham applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approved
2
2/2
1
1/1
1
1/1
1
1/1
1
1/1
2
2/2
1
1/1
1
1/1
Show all 5 rows
1
1/1
1
1/1

Where the 6 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.

Committee membership for Barking And Dagenham is still being matched from the minutes — no member-level voting records to show yet.

Meeting minutes

The committee figures on this page are derived from Barking And Dagenham'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
22/00616/FULL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-07-12
20/01097/OUTALL
Outline Planning Permission (All Matters Reserved)
Approved
2022-03-02
22/00616/FULL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-07-12
20/01097/OUTALL
Outline Planning Permission (All Matters Reserved)
Approved
2022-03-02
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Committee members— subscriber data

Committee membership for Barking And Dagenham is still being matched from the minutes.

At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members—
Decisions6 (2020–26)
Committee approval100%
Delegated97.9%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
Committee members

Still being matched from the minutes.

Related investigations
Committee Watch →
When members overturn the officer line — and how those calls fare at appeal.
The politics of housing in Barking And Dagenham →
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 Barking And Dagenham's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Barking And Dagenham 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.