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Planning committee.

Brent's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 95% of the 136 decisions that reached it, hears just 0.6% of decisions to committee, and of the 16 refusals traced in recent minutes, 2 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Labour majority18 members136 committee decisions2020–26
Brent · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
All investigations →
136
Committee decisions
2020–26
18
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. Brent'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: 78% — click to filter the pageVariation of Conditions: 6% — click to filter the pageDeemed (Reg3 Councils own Development): 4%Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed: 4% — click to filter the pageOther: 9%
Full Planning Permission78%
Variation of Conditions6%
Deemed (Reg3 Councils own Development)4%
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed4%
Other9%

Share of the 136 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes16 · 19th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified11 · 12th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal2 · 17th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

Brent's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage right now, so refusal citations aren't reliable enough to publish as a table — an estimate would be worse than nothing.

How Brent applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward

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.

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.

Meeting minutes

The committee figures on this page are derived from Brent'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
20/4143
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-01
22/1145
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-12-19
20/4143
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-01
22/1145
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-12-19
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Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members18
Decisions136 (2020–26)
Committee approval95%
Delegated99.4%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
Related investigations
Committee Watch →
When members overturn the officer line — and how those calls fare at appeal.
The politics of housing in Brent
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 Brent's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Brent 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.