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London Borough of Hillingdon

Planning committee.

Most planning decisions in Hillingdon 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]

Conservative majority10 members2020–26
Hillingdon · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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0
Committee decisions
2020–26
10
Members
Conservative 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. Hillingdon'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 Hillingdon.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes10 · 25th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified8 · 14th 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 Hillingdon 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.

NPPF276×
SI 12 of the Mayor's Publication London Plan (2020)1×
EM6 of the Local Plan1×
DMEI 9 of the Local Plan1×
DMCI 7 of the Hillingdon Local Plan1×
DF1 of the Draft London Plan1×
8.2 of the London Plan (2016)1×

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

How Hillingdon applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward

No committee-level decisions are recorded for Hillingdon 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.

MemberForAgainstVotes
Henry Higgins03n=3Jagjit Singh01n=1Darran Davies · Chair01n=0Philip Corthorne MCIPD · Chair00n=0Daniel Singham00n=0Ella Garelick00n=0James Bourke00n=0Jas Dhot00n=0John Garner00n=0Roy Chamdal00n=0

Vote counts are matched from the minutes across inconsistent name forms and are still being completed. Click a member for every recorded vote.

Meeting minutes

The committee figures on this page are derived from Hillingdon'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 Hillingdon in the loaded register. As more of the register loads, committee decisions will appear here.

Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteeHillingdon Planning Committee
ControlConservative majority
Members10
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 Hillingdon
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 Hillingdon's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Hillingdon 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.