Thomas Bidwell
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Crawley planning committee

Councillor Thomas Bidwell

Member, Planning Committee

Seen at planning committee from July 2025 to September 2026

  • 100%attendance
  • 29decisions at their meetings
  • 2motions proposed

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 6 October 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Crawley’s published minutes, Councillor Thomas Bidwell attended 16 of the 16 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from July 2025 to September 2026. The committee decided 29 applications at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them. Bidwell proposed 2 motions the committee passed and seconded 17.

Meetings attended
16 of 16100%
Meetings whose minutes list them as present, sending apologies or absent. Minutes that list only those present cannot show an absence.
Decisions at their meetings
29
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
Proposed or seconded
2 / 17
Motions the minutes say they proposed, then seconded, that the committee passed.
Declared interests
0
Decisions on which the minutes record them declaring an interest.

Voting record

The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote at these meetings, so no vote is counted for Bidwell and no voting chart is drawn. The minutes do name who proposed each motion.

Attendance

100%

16 of 16 meetings whose minutes list them.

The typical member of this committee attended 100% (the median of 18 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

Each square is a meeting whose minutes list them, oldest first.

Present
20252026

Planning Committee: 16 meetings

Show as a table
Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
2 Sep 2026Planning CommitteePresent
20 Jul 2026Planning CommitteePresent
25 Jun 2026Planning CommitteePresent
2 Jun 2026Planning CommitteePresent
21 Apr 2026Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
30 Mar 2026Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
10 Mar 2026Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
24 Feb 2026Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
27 Jan 2026Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
13 Jan 2026Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
1 Dec 2025Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
4 Nov 2025Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
14 Oct 2025Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
16 Sep 2025Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
26 Aug 2025Planning CommitteePresent, Vice-Chair
7 Jul 2025Planning CommitteePresent

Decisions

Every application decided at a meeting they sat on, newest first, with their vote where the minutes give it.

Their vote
Outcome

In the minutes

What the minutes record Bidwell moving, seconding, asking or saying on each decision, in the minutes’ own words. Passages that name more than one councillor, or a member of the public, are left out.

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Crawley’s published planning committee minutes, 17 meetings from July 2025 to October 2026. A councillor is matched across meetings by the council’s own member number where it has one, otherwise by full name.

Each vote shows how it is known. Named in the minutes: the minutes, or the council’s own recorded vote, list each member with their vote. From the count and the names: the minutes give the numbers and name the members in the minority, and every member present is known. All members present in favour: the minutes say every member voted for it and the members present are known. No vote against recorded: the minutes record the decision with no vote against, no abstention and no count, at a council whose minutes print a divided vote when there is one, so each member present is counted for. Unanimous vote: the minutes call the decision unanimous, or give a count with no one against and no one abstaining, and each member present is counted for. From the meeting recording: the vote was heard on the council’s recording of the meeting and closes exactly with the members present. Where none of these holds, the vote is left as “Not recorded” and is not counted.

Votes are on the resolution the committee passed, so a vote for is a vote with the majority. A vote is a decision on the application in front of the committee, not a statement of the councillor’s views. A percentage is shown only with five or more votes, decisions or meetings behind it.

Source: Plota analysis of the council’s minutes. The party is from the council’s own list of councillors.

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