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London Borough of Hammersmith And Fulham

Planning committee.

Most planning decisions in Hammersmith And Fulham are settled by officers under delegation. Committee-level decisions are not yet visible in the loaded register — membership and voting records from the minutes are below.[1]

Labour majority11 members2020–26
Hammersmith And Fulham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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Committee decisions
2020–26
11
Members
Labour majority
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. Hammersmith And Fulham'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]

No committee-decided applications on record yet for Hammersmith And Fulham.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes70 · 5th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified43 · 4th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal10 · 5th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Hammersmith And Fulham 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.

NPPF4×
DC1, CF3, CC11, CC13 of the Local Plan (2018)4×
DC1, DC4 and DC8 of the Local Plan (2018)3×
DC1, DC4 and DC8 of the Local Plan3×
BM2, CAC3 and HS4 of the Planning Guidance Supplementary Planning Document (2018)3×
Local Plan (2018) Policies DC1, DC4 and DC83×
DC1, DC4 and HO11 of the Local Plan (2018)3×
AH1, AH2 and CAG3 of the Planning Guidance Supplementary Planning Document (2018)3×

8 high-confidence refusal notices parsed for Hammersmith And Fulham. How often a refusal on each ground survives appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

How Hammersmith And Fulham applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward

No committee-level decisions are recorded for Hammersmith And Fulham in the loaded register, so there is no ward breakdown to show yet.

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 Hammersmith And Fulham'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

No committee-level decisions are recorded for Hammersmith And Fulham in the loaded register. As more of the register loads, committee decisions will appear here.

Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members11
Decisions0
Committee approval
Delegated
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 Hammersmith And Fulham
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 Hammersmith And Fulham's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Hammersmith And Fulham 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.