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London Borough of Ealing

Planning committee.

Ealing's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 97% of the 121 decisions that reached it, hears just 0.5% of decisions to committee, and of the 3 refusals traced in recent minutes, 1 was overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Labour majority121 committee decisions2020–26
Ealing · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
All investigations →
121
Committee decisions
2020–26
—
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. Ealing'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 Application: 54% — click to filter the pageFull Application - Reg 3: 12% — click to filter the pageVariation of Condition: 5%Approval of Reserved Matters: 5%Other: 24%
Full Application54%
Full Application - Reg 312%
Variation of Condition5%
Approval of Reserved Matters5%
Other24%

Share of the 121 committee decisions on record. The call-in reason itself comes from committee minutes — not yet loaded.

In context — Versus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes3 · 32nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified1 · 23rd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal1 · 22nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Ealing 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.

NPPF628×
policies D3 and D4 of the London Plan (2021)317×
D3 and D4 of the London Plan (2021)256×
policies D3 and D6 of the London Plan (2021)208×
7.4 of the Ealing Development Management DPD (2013)176×
D6 of the London Plan (2021)122×
H9, D1, D3, D4, D6 and D14 of the London Plan (2021)98×
D3, D4 and HC1 of the London Plan (2021)93×

985 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Ealing. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

How Ealing applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approved
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9/10
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9/9
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6/6
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2/4
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3
1/3
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2/2
2
2/2
2
2/2
2
1/2
2
2/2
2
2/2
2
2/2
1
1/1
1
1/1
10
9/10
9
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Show all 21 rows
6
6/6
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2/4
3
2/3
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3/3
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1/3
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2/2
1
1/1
1
1/1

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.

Committee membership for Ealing 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 Ealing'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
201618LBC
Listed Building Consent
Other
2026-03-30
215858FUL
Full Application
Other
2026-03-25
201618LBC
Listed Building Consent
Other
2026-03-30
215858FUL
Full Application
Other
2026-03-25
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Committee members— subscriber data

Committee membership for Ealing is still being matched from the minutes.

At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members—
Decisions121 (2020–26)
Committee approval97%
Delegated99.5%
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 Ealing →
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 Ealing's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Ealing 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.