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Planning Atlas · Waltham Forest · Political

Political.

Who runs Waltham Forest, 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 keyLabourConservative
Tap a ward on the map to focus this page on it — its committee members and votes surface here and below.
Waltham Forest · political map
Approval rate — by ward
Ward controlLabourConservative
Composition — current membership records
Political control
Labour[1]
majority
Seats
67 / 85[1]
67 Labour · 18 Conservative
Committee chair
not identified in the minutes yet
Last / next election
2022 · 2026[4]
four-year cycle, all-out
Council composition · 85 councillors[1]
Labour
67 · 79%
Conservative
18 · 21%

The planning record, 20202026

Approval rate[2]Housing delivery — not yet sourced
All years · Waltham Forest
70%80%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 %
Labour16
64 for · 11 against
85%
Conservative8
15 for · 7 against
68%
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
Emma Best ConservativeEndleburyto 2025-0510🔒🔒subscribersMasood Ahmad Labourto 2021-129🔒🔒subscribersAndrew James Dixon LabourHoe Streetto 2025-057🔒🔒subscribersJenny Gray LabourLeytonstoneActive7🔒🔒subscribersSebastian Salek LabourSt JamesActive7🔒🔒subscribersUzma Rasool LabourGrove GreenActive7🔒🔒subscribersGerry Lyons LabourLea BridgeActive6🔒🔒subscribersJohar Khan LabourMarkhouseto 2021-036🔒🔒subscribersSharon Waldron LabourMarkhouseto 2021-036🔒🔒subscribersJohn Moss ConservativeLarkswoodActive5🔒🔒subscribersMarie Pye LabourLeytonstoneActive5🔒🔒subscribersCatherine Saumarez ConservativeLarkswoodto 2025-074🔒🔒subscribersClyde Loakes LabourLeytonstoneto 2022-124🔒🔒subscribersSally Littlejohn LabourCann Hallto 2024-014🔒🔒subscribersGrace Williams LabourWilliam Morristo 2021-063🔒🔒subscribersKeith Rayner LabourCann HallActive3🔒🔒subscribersSteve Terry LabourChapel EndActive3🔒🔒subscribersAlan Siggers Conservativeto 2022-042🔒🔒subscribersKhevyn Limbajee LabourGrove Greento 2021-052🔒🔒subscribersMitchell Goldie ConservativeChingford Greento 2023-112🔒🔒subscribersShabana Dhedhi LabourLea BridgeActive2🔒🔒subscribersTim James ConservativeHatch Lane & Highams Park NorthActive2🔒🔒subscribersAndy Hemsted Conservativeto 2021-091🔒🔒subscribersKay Isa ConservativeChingford Greento 2024-031🔒🔒subscribers
Sources & method
  1. [1]Party composition, control and seats — Waltham Forest membership records (current state; historical composition not yet loaded).
  2. [2]Approval rate by year — Waltham Forest published decision record, aggregated to calendar year. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee roster, chair and per-councillor votes — published Waltham Forest 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.