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Planning committee.

Wandsworth's planning committee decides the applications officers don't settle under delegation. It approved 93% of the 489 decisions that reached it, hears just 2% of decisions to committee, and of the 37 refusals traced in recent minutes, 6 were overturned at appeal. Where it acts, and on what, is below.[1]

Labour majority18 members489 committee decisions2020–26
Wandsworth · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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489
Committee decisions
2020–26
18
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. Wandsworth'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 Wandsworth.

In contextVersus London committees
Refusals in committee minutes37 · 11th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refused against officer advice ⚠ unverified24 · 6th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Refusals overturned at appeal6 · 8th of 33
lower is betterdashed = London avg
Grounds the committee acts on[2]

The policies most often cited on Wandsworth 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.

NPPF1,059×
policies DMS1 and DMH5 of the Development Management Policies122×
policies LP1 and LP5 of the Wandsworth Local Plan (2023)116×
policies LP1, LP3 and LP5 of the Wandsworth Local Plan (2023)111×
policies DMS1, DMS2 and DMH5 of the Development Management Policies90×
policies LP1, LP3 and LP5 of the Local Plan (2023)78×
policy DMS1 of the Development Management Policies59×
policy LP2 of the Wandsworth Local Plan (2023)57×

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

How Wandsworth applies its planning policies →
Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approved

Where the 80 committee decisions on record land, 2020–26.[1] 1 carry no ward on the notice. Click the map above to explore spatially, or a row to open the ward.

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 Wandsworth'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
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
2020/0123
Application for Full Permission
Approved
2020/0134
Householder
Approved
2020/0123
Application for Full Permission
Approved
2020/0134
Householder
Approved
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At a glance
CommitteePlanning Applications Committee
ControlLabour majority
Members18
Decisions489 (2020–26)
Committee approval93%
Delegated98%
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 Wandsworth
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 Wandsworth's published decision notices, 2020–26. · methodology
  2. [2]Committee membership, party control and per-member vote counts — Wandsworth 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.