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Political.

Who runs Sutton, and what its planning record did over the loaded years. Composition and control from the membership records; the approval line from the borough's own decisions. The individual members and their votes sit in the committee record.

Party keyLiberal DemocratConservativeIndependentLabour
Tap a ward on the map to focus this page on it — its committee members and votes surface here and below.
Sutton · political map
Approval rate — by ward
Ward controlIndependentConservativeLiberal DemocratLabour
Composition — current membership records
Political control
Liberal Democrat[1]
majority
Seats
71 / 137[1]
71 Liberal Democrat · 52 Conservative · 7 Independent · 7 Labour
Committee chair
—
not identified in the minutes yet
Last / next election
2022 · 2026[4]
four-year cycle, all-out
Council composition · 137 councillors[1]
Liberal Democrat
71 · 52%
Conservative
52 · 38%
Independent
7 · 5%
Labour
7 · 5%

The planning record, 2020–2026

Approval rate[2]Housing delivery — not yet sourced
All years · Sutton
70%90%2022 election [4]2026 election [4]2020202120222023202420252026

Hover to preview any year; click to set the year shown on the map — the wards recolour to that year's own approval rates. The line is unannotated: any relationship between elections and the planning record is left for the reader. Which party controlled the council in earlier cycles isn't loaded yet, so no control ribbon is drawn — nothing is guessed.

Committee votes by party — all loaded minutes

Per-member detail →

How each party's members on the planning committee have voted on the applications in the loaded minutes, aggregated. Per-year splits need dated vote records — not yet loaded, so no year filter is offered here.[3]

PartyMembersFor / againstFor %
Liberal Democrat18
685 for · 138 against
83%
Conservative12
465 for · 238 against
66%
Independent3
149 for · 82 against
65%
Labour2
0 for · 7 against
0%
Bar colour = party (identity only). Solid = for · faded = against. Abstentions aren't separately coded in the loaded minutes yet.
Councillor voting — click a name to see every vote[3]
Councillor
Ward
Active
Total
For
Against
Stance
Tim Foster IndependentBeddingtonActive246🔒🔒subscribersTony Shields ConservativeCheamActive218🔒🔒subscribersEric Allen Conservative—Active201🔒🔒subscribersRichard Clifton Liberal DemocratSutton SouthActive170🔒🔒subscribersPeter Geiringer Conservative—Active154🔒🔒subscribersAmy Haldane Liberal Democrat—to 2024-06152🔒🔒subscribersJayne McCoy Liberal Democrat—Active121🔒🔒subscribersPatrick Magnus ConservativeSouth Beddington & RoundshawActive108🔒🔒subscribersSam Cumber Liberal DemocratSutton NorthActive104🔒🔒subscribersPatrick Ogbonna Liberal DemocratThe WrytheActive102🔒🔒subscribersTrish Fivey Liberal DemocratSutton SouthActive84🔒🔒subscribersTim Crowley ConservativeCarshalton South & ClockhouseActive38🔒🔒subscribersEdward Joyce Liberal Democrat—Active35🔒🔒subscribersLuke Taylor Liberal DemocratSutton West & East CheamActive30🔒🔒subscribersJake Short Liberal Democrat—Active28🔒🔒subscribersMuhammad Sadiq Liberal Democrat—Active27🔒🔒subscribersParam Nandha ConservativeNorth CheamActive25🔒🔒subscribersSam Martin Liberal DemocratWallington SouthActive24🔒🔒subscribersLouise Phelan Liberal DemocratSutton Southto 2024-1115🔒🔒subscribersDavid Hicks ConservativeBelmontActive13🔒🔒subscribersGemma Munday Liberal Democrat—Active8🔒🔒subscribersJames McDermott-Hill Conservative—to 2023-027🔒🔒subscribersNick Mattey IndependentBeddingtonto 2025-046🔒🔒subscribersSunita Gordon Liberal DemocratWallington Northto 2024-116🔒🔒subscribersRob Beck Liberal DemocratStonecotto 2023-025🔒🔒subscribersJillian Green Independent—to 2024-094🔒🔒subscribersMoira Butt Conservative—to 2024-124🔒🔒subscribersSheldon Vestey Labour—to 2024-124🔒🔒subscribersAndrew Jenner Liberal Democrat—to 2023-103🔒🔒subscribersDave Tchil LabourHackbridgeActive3🔒🔒subscribersIsabel Araujo Liberal DemocratCarshalton Centralto 2023-103🔒🔒subscribersCumar Sahathevan Liberal Democrat—to 2022-052🔒🔒subscribersTom Drummond ConservativeWorcester Park Northto 2021-012🔒🔒subscribersVanessa Udall Conservative—to 2022-062🔒🔒subscribersNeil Garratt Conservative—to 2019-061🔒🔒subscribers
Sources & method
  1. [1]Party composition, control and seats — Sutton membership records (current state; historical composition not yet loaded).
  2. [2]Approval rate by year — Sutton published decision record, aggregated to calendar year. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee roster, chair and per-councillor votes — published Sutton planning-committee minutes; matched across inconsistent name forms and still being completed. · committee record
  4. [4]London borough election dates — statutory all-out elections every four years. · London Elects
A record, not a ranking — no editorial judgement is applied. Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.