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Planning Atlas · Barking And Dagenham · Political

Political.

Who runs Barking And Dagenham, 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 keyLabourConservativeGreen
Tap a ward on the map to focus this page on it — its committee members and votes surface here and below.
Barking And Dagenham · political map
Approval rate — by ward
Ward controlLabour
Composition — current membership records
Political control
Labour[1]
majority
Seats
79 / 81[1]
79 Labour · 1 Conservative · 1 Green
Committee chair
not identified in the minutes yet
Last / next election
2022 · 2026[4]
four-year cycle, all-out
Council composition · 81 councillors[1]
Labour
79 · 98%
Conservative
1 · 1%
Green
1 · 1%

The planning record, 20202026

Approval rate[2]Housing delivery — not yet sourced
All years · Barking And Dagenham
60%75%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 %
Labour11
9 for · 33 against
21%
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
Muhammad Saleem LabourBecontreeActive34🔒🔒subscribersMargaret Mullane LabourVillageto 2021-0919🔒🔒subscribersJohn Dulwich LabourAlibonto 2022-0410🔒🔒subscribersPhil Waker LabourVillageto 2022-078🔒🔒subscribersMichael Anthony McCarthy Labourto 2021-107🔒🔒subscribersSimon Perry LabourChadwell Heathto 2023-026🔒🔒subscribersTony Ramsay LabourEastbrook & Rush Greento 2021-105🔒🔒subscribersIrma Freeborn Labourto 2021-122🔒🔒subscribersOlawale Martins LabourHeathto 2022-032🔒🔒subscribersChris Rice LabourParsloesto 2018-021🔒🔒subscribersLee Waker LabourVillageto 2022-071🔒🔒subscribers
Sources & method
  1. [1]Party composition, control and seats — Barking And Dagenham membership records (current state; historical composition not yet loaded).
  2. [2]Approval rate by year — Barking And Dagenham published decision record, aggregated to calendar year. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee roster, chair and per-councillor votes — published Barking And Dagenham 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.