Henry Higgins
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Hillingdon planning committee

Councillor Henry Higgins

Northwood wardChair, Hillingdon Planning Committee

Seen at planning committee from May 2025 to April 2026

  • 92%attendance
  • 17recorded votes
  • 14agreed, no vote against recorded
  • 100%with the majority
  • 0%against officer advice

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As at 14 October 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Hillingdon’s published minutes, Councillor Henry Higgins attended 11 of the 12 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from May 2025 to April 2026, in the chair at 11. Each member's vote is recorded on 17 decisions at those meetings: Higgins voted for the resolution on all 17. On 17 of those votes the officers’ recommendation is known, and none went against it. On 14 other decisions the minutes record no vote against, so Higgins is counted as agreeing; they are left out of the shares below.

Meetings attended
11 of 1292%
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
37
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
Recorded votes
17
Decisions where the minutes, the council's recorded vote or the meeting's recording give each member's vote: 17 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.
With the majority
17 of 17100%
Votes for the resolution the committee passed. An abstention is not counted as with the majority.
Agreed, no vote against recorded
14
Decisions the minutes record with no vote against and no count. Counted as agreeing, and left out of the shares.
Votes against officer advice
0 of 170%
Recorded votes where the officers’ recommendation is known: for a resolution that went against it, or against one that followed it.
Declared interests
0
Decisions on which the minutes record them declaring an interest.

Voting record

Votes by quarter

For the resolution on all 17 recorded votes; the most in Q1 2026 (7).

17 recorded votes, by the quarter of the meeting.

ForAgainstAbstained
048
2025
2026
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Votes by quarter
QuarterForAgainstAbstained
Q2 2025200
Q3 2025500
Q4 2025300
Q1 2026700

Against officer advice

Higgins went against officer advice as often as the committee: 0%.

The share that went against the officers’ recommendation.

Higgins’s votes0%0 of 17
The committee’s decisions at their meetings0%0 of 36

The typical member of this committee (the median of 11 members with 5 or more such votes) voted against officer advice on 0% of them.

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

92%

11 of 12 meetings whose minutes list them; apologies for 1.

The typical member of this committee attended 88% (the median of 12 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

PresentApologies
20252026

Hillingdon Planning Committee: 11 meetings

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
21 Apr 2026Hillingdon Planning CommitteeApologies
11 Mar 2026Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
11 Feb 2026Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
14 Jan 2026Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
16 Dec 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
5 Nov 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
2 Oct 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
4 Sep 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
17 Jul 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
11 Jun 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
8 May 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair
7 May 2025Hillingdon Planning CommitteePresent, Chair

Decisions

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

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Outcome

In the minutes

What the minutes record Higgins 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

  • Asked a question
    “The Chair asked Councillor Sweeting whether she had any concerns about the specific works proposed, namely the infilling of the ATM and the fenestration changes.”
    Minutes, 11 Feb 2026, 30-34 STATION ROAD WEST DRAYTON
  • Asked about parking
    “The Chair asked and officers confirmed that permitted developments rights had been removed, and there was no parking management scheme.”
    Minutes, 11 Jun 2025, 42 THE LARCHES HILLINGDON

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Hillingdon’s published planning committee minutes, 18 meetings from May 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.

Also on this committee

All Hillingdon committee councillors