Michael Ramage
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Durham planning committee

Councillor Michael Ramage

Member, Area Planning Committee (Central and East)

Seen at planning committee from October 2025 to March 2026

  • 2 of 2meetings attended
  • 4decisions 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 Michael Ramage attended 2 of the 2 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from October 2025 to March 2026. The committee decided 4 applications at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them.

Meetings attended
2 of 2
Too few meetings for a percentage.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
4
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
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 Ramage and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

2 of 2

2 of 2 meetings whose minutes list them.

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.

Present
20252026

Area Planning Committee (Central and East): 1 meeting · County Planning Committee: 1 meeting

Show as a table
Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
4 Mar 2026County Planning CommitteePresent
7 Oct 2025Area Planning Committee (Central and East)Present

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 Ramage 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
    “Councillor M Ramage addressed the Committee as Local Member.”
    Minutes, 4 Mar 2026, Land North And West Of 3 Westerton Road Coundon
  • Spoke
    “Councillor Ramage noted that objectors had referred to an alleged lack of capacity at the doctor’s surgery however there was no evidence to suggest this was the case.”
    Minutes, 4 Mar 2026, Land North And West Of 3 Westerton Road Coundon
  • Spoke
    “Subject to the application being approved, Councillor Ramage advised that Section 106 funding from the development could be utilised to upgrade existing community facilities and infrastructure.”
    Minutes, 4 Mar 2026, Land North And West Of 3 Westerton Road Coundon
  • Spoke
    “Councillor Ramage explained that a draft Section 106 Agreement would only be finalised following approval of a development.”
    Minutes, 4 Mar 2026, Land North And West Of 3 Westerton Road Coundon
  • Spoke
    “Councillor M Ramage addressed the committee in support of the application. He requested that his speech be circulated to members at the meeting but legal warranted this unnecessary as he was addressing the committee in person.”
    Minutes, 19 Feb 2026, Land East Of Buckingham Terrace Leeholme
  • Asked a question
    “Councillor M Ramage asked for a response from the Legal Officer as regards Parish Councillor R Hornby’s comments on conflict with statutory requirements.”
    Minutes, 7 Oct 2025, 43 Oak Avenue Sherburn Road Estate Durham
  • Asked about highway safety
    “Councillor M Ramage asked why Highways deemed a three-person property should not have three parking spaces.”
    Minutes, 7 Oct 2025, 43 Oak Avenue Sherburn Road Estate Durham
  • Spoke on parking
    “Councillor M Ramage reiterated regarding HMOs and having three parking spaces.”
    Minutes, 7 Oct 2025, 43 Oak Avenue Sherburn Road Estate 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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