East Suffolk planning committee

Councillor Paul Richard Ashton

Member, Planning Committee North

Seen at planning committee from September 2025 to September 2026

  • 80%attendance
  • 4recorded votes
  • 5agreed, no vote against recorded
  • 32decisions at their meetings
  • 4motions proposed

As at 8 September 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of East Suffolk’s published minutes, Councillor Paul Richard Ashton attended 12 of the 15 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from September 2025 to September 2026. Each member's vote is recorded on 4 decisions at those meetings: Ashton voted for the resolution on all 4. On 4 of those votes the officers’ recommendation is known, and 1 went against it. On 5 other decisions the minutes record no vote against, so Ashton is counted as agreeing; they are left out of the shares below. Ashton proposed 4 motions the committee passed.

Meetings attended
12 of 1580%
Meetings whose minutes list them as present, sending apologies or absent. Minutes that list only those present cannot show an absence. 1 meeting as a substitute.
Decisions at their meetings
32
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
Recorded votes
4
Decisions where the minutes, the council's recorded vote or the meeting's recording give each member's vote: 4 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.
Agreed, no vote against recorded
5
Decisions the minutes record with no vote against and no count. Counted as agreeing, and left out of the shares.
Proposed or seconded
4 / 0
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

Votes by quarter

Not drawn: 4 recorded votes is too few to show a pattern over time.

Against officer advice

Not drawn: 4 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.

Motions they proposed

3 of the 4 motions Ashton proposed were to approve, 1 to refuse.

The outcome of each motion the minutes say Ashton proposed and the committee passed.

Approved 3Refused 1

Attendance

80%

12 of 15 meetings whose minutes list them; apologies for 3.

The typical member of this committee attended 92% (the median of 20 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

PresentAs a substituteApologies
20252026

Planning Committee North: 8 meetings · Strategic Planning Committee: 3 meetings · Planning Committee South: 1 meeting

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
8 Sep 2026Planning Committee NorthPresent
11 Aug 2026Planning Committee NorthApologies
9 Jun 2026Planning Committee NorthPresent
12 May 2026Planning Committee NorthApologies
14 Apr 2026Planning Committee NorthPresent
13 Apr 2026Strategic Planning CommitteePresent
10 Mar 2026Planning Committee NorthPresent
20 Jan 2026Planning Committee NorthPresent
12 Jan 2026Strategic Planning CommitteeApologies
9 Dec 2025Planning Committee NorthPresent
11 Nov 2025Planning Committee NorthPresent
31 Oct 2025Strategic Planning CommitteePresent
6 Oct 2025Strategic Planning CommitteePresent
23 Sep 2025Planning Committee SouthPresent as a substitute
9 Sep 2025Planning Committee NorthPresent

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 Ashton 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

The 30 most recent of 64 are shown.

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from East Suffolk’s published planning committee minutes, 24 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 the one they were elected for, from Democracy Club’s open election results.

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