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Political.

Who runs Westminster, 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.
Westminster · political map
Approval rate — by ward
Ward controlConservativeLabour
Composition — current membership records
Political control
Labour[1]
majority
Seats
38 / 73[1]
38 Labour · 35 Conservative
Committee chair
—
not identified in the minutes yet
Last / next election
2022 · 2026[4]
four-year cycle, all-out
Council composition · 73 councillors[1]
Labour
38 · 52%
Conservative
35 · 48%

The planning record, 2020–2026

Approval rate[2]Housing delivery — not yet sourced
All years · Westminster
85%95%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 %
Labour11
87 for · 46 against
65%
Conservative5
40 for · 6 against
87%
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
Patrick Lilley Labour—Active37🔒🔒subscribersLaila Cunningham ConservativeLancaster GateActive26🔒🔒subscribersNafsika Butler-Thalassis LabourMaida ValeActive26🔒🔒subscribersRyan Jude LabourLancaster GateActive26🔒🔒subscribersPaul Fisher LabourWest EndActive14🔒🔒subscribersLouise Hyams ConservativeSt James'sActive7🔒🔒subscribersElizabeth Hitchcock Conservative—Active6🔒🔒subscribersJason Williams Labour—Active6🔒🔒subscribersSara Hassan LabourLittle VeniceActive6🔒🔒subscribersPaul Dimoldenberg Labour—Active5🔒🔒subscribersSelina Short Conservative—Active5🔒🔒subscribersConcia Albert LabourHarrow RoadActive4🔒🔒subscribersDavid Boothroyd LabourWestbourneActive4🔒🔒subscribersRobert Eagleton Labour—Active3🔒🔒subscribersTim Mitchell ConservativeSt James'sActive2🔒🔒subscribersTim Roca LabourHarrow RoadActive2🔒🔒subscribers
Sources & method
  1. [1]Party composition, control and seats — Westminster membership records (current state; historical composition not yet loaded).
  2. [2]Approval rate by year — Westminster published decision record, aggregated to calendar year. · methodology
  3. [3]Committee roster, chair and per-councillor votes — published Westminster 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.