Liz Maddison
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Durham planning committee

Councillor Liz Maddison

Spmoor wardMember, County Planning Committee

Seen at planning committee from September 2025 to September 2026

  • 73%attendance
  • 3recorded votes
  • 8agreed, no vote against recorded
  • 23decisions at their meetings

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 17 September 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Durham’s published minutes, Councillor Liz Maddison attended 11 of the 15 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from September 2025 to September 2026. Each member's vote is recorded on 3 decisions at those meetings: Maddison voted for the resolution on all 3. On 3 of those votes the officers’ recommendation is known, and 1 went against it. On 8 other decisions the minutes record no vote against, so Maddison is counted as agreeing; they are left out of the shares below.

Meetings attended
11 of 1573%
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
23
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
Recorded votes
3
Decisions where the minutes, the council's recorded vote or the meeting's recording give each member's vote: 3 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.
Agreed, no vote against recorded
8
Decisions the minutes record with no vote against and no count. Counted as agreeing, and left out of the shares.
Declared interests
0
Decisions on which the minutes record them declaring an interest.

Voting record

Votes by quarter

Not drawn: 3 recorded votes is too few to show a pattern over time.

Against officer advice

Not drawn: 3 recorded votes with a known officers’ recommendation is too few to compare.

Agreement with other members

Not drawn: the minutes record no divided vote of this councillor by name. On a unanimous vote every member agrees, so it says nothing about agreement.

Attendance

73%

11 of 15 meetings whose minutes list them; apologies for 4.

The typical member of this committee attended 86% (the median of 31 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

PresentApologies
20252026

County Planning Committee: 6 meetings · Area Planning Committee (South and West): 5 meetings

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
17 Sep 2026Area Planning Committee (South and West)Present
16 Jul 2026Area Planning Committee (South and West)Present
2 Jun 2026County Planning CommitteePresent
4 Mar 2026County Planning CommitteePresent
19 Feb 2026Area Planning Committee (South and West)Present
4 Feb 2026County Planning CommitteePresent
11 Dec 2025Area Planning Committee (South and West)Present
3 Dec 2025County Planning CommitteePresent
20 Nov 2025Area Planning Committee (South and West)Apologies
5 Nov 2025County Planning CommitteeApologies
20 Oct 2025County Planning CommitteePresent
16 Oct 2025Area Planning Committee (South and West)Present
1 Oct 2025County Planning CommitteePresent
18 Sep 2025Area Planning Committee (South and West)Apologies
3 Sep 2025County Planning CommitteeApologies

Decisions

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

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Their vote
Outcome

In the minutes

What the minutes record Maddison 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.

Subjects in what the minutes record

  • Spoke on trees and wildlife
    “Councillor L Maddison noted the report referred to trees within residential curtilage and asked whether the correct types and species would be considered, as often when trees matured there could be issues with roots and overshadowing, leading to residents wishing to remove them.”
    Minutes, 17 Sep 2026, Land at Kitchen Avenue, Bishop Auckland
  • Spoke
    “Councillor L Maddison noted experience in her Electoral Division where dust from large developments had caused issues in the local area and asked whether the Council were tightening up on these types of issues and how it would be dealt with in this particular application.”
    Minutes, 17 Sep 2026, Land at Kitchen Avenue, Bishop Auckland
  • Asked a question
    “Councillor Maddison asked several questions of the Planning Officer with regards to sustainability of the site since the retail unit had been removed and the location on a busy road used by emergency vehicles.”
    Minutes, 2 Jun 2026, Land To The North Of York Hill Road Spennymoor
  • Spoke
    “Councillor L Maddison noted that Paragraph 61 had been referred to in relation to the number of bedrooms and questioned whether it would be a maximum of two children which she hoped would be for children from County Durham. She acknowledged the concerns from residents which similar concerns being raised about a children’s home in her division which had successfully integrated into the community.”
    Minutes, 19 Feb 2026, 2 The Paddock Toronto Bishop Auckland
  • Asked a question
    “Councillor Maddison queried the risk of importing potentially hazardous waste from other construction sites.”
    Minutes, 4 Feb 2026, Tarmac The Quarry Old Quarrington Durham

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Durham’s published planning committee minutes, 34 meetings from September 2025 to September 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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