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Planning committee.

Most planning decisions in Kensington And Chelsea 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 majority24 members2020–26
Kensington And Chelsea · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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Committee decisions
2020–26
24
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. Kensington And Chelsea'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 Kensington And Chelsea.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes105 · 2nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified82 · 2nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal20 · 2nd of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Kensington And Chelsea 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.

NPPF40×
policies CL1, CL2, CL3, CL6, CL9 and CL11 of the Local Plan 201918×
CD1, CD2, CD3, CD4, CD15 and TR4 of the Local Plan18×
policies CL1, CL2, CL3, CL6 and CL11 of the Local Plan 201915×
CL4 of the Local Plan10×
policies CL1, CL2, CL3, CL4 and CL11 of the Local Plan 201910×
policy CL5 of the Local Plan 201910×
policies CL1, CL2, CL3, CL4, CL6, CL8, CL9 and CL11 of the Local Plan 20198×

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

How Kensington And Chelsea applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward

No committee-level decisions are recorded for Kensington And Chelsea 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
Lloyd North172111n=224Walaa Idris93255n=215Will Lane122126n=203James Alexander Husband24268n=187Aarien Uday Om Areti114155n=167Hamish Adourian54249n=167Emma Dent Coad82158n=147Sam Mackover13857n=138Tom Bennett13790n=132Sina Lari45130n=121Mo Bakhtiar7781n=111Kasim Ali96131n=105Sonia Elizabeth Zvedeniuk73118n=98Janet Evans7244n=97Tim Verboven37115n=83Linda Wade31229n=60Roberto Weeden-Sanz2243n=43Dori Schmetterling6541n=40Gerard Hargreaves4925n=40Anne Barbara Cyron2138n=32Mona Adam928n=26Eva Jedut2642n=19Toby James Benton2676n=19Dahabo Haji Isse60n=6

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 Kensington And Chelsea'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 Kensington And Chelsea in the loaded register. As more of the register loads, committee decisions will appear here.

Committee members— subscriber data
At a glance
CommitteePlanning Committee
ControlConservative majority
Members24
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 Kensington And Chelsea
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 Kensington And Chelsea's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Kensington And Chelsea 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.