Stuart Allen
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Ipswich planning committee

Councillor Stuart Allen

Member, Planning & Development Committee

Seen at planning committee in July 2026

  • 1 of 1meeting attended
  • 1decisions at their meetings

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 23 September 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Ipswich’s published minutes, Councillor Stuart Allen attended one planning committee meeting, in July 2026. The committee decided 1 application at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them.

Meetings attended
1 of 1
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. 1 meeting as a substitute.
Decisions at their meetings
1
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 Allen and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

1 of 1

1 of 1 meeting whose minutes list them.

The typical member of this committee attended 100% (the median of 14 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

PresentAs a substitute
2026

Planning & Development Committee: 1 meeting

Show as a table
Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
29 Jul 2026Planning & Development CommitteePresent as a substitute

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 Allen 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 parking
    “Councillor Allen commented that whilst the proposed layout was an improvement on the previous application, safety issues had not been addressed as it was still a dangerous layout with the drive through conflicting with vehicles reversing out of parking spaces and exiting onto a busy junction and dangerous road system; there were also many conditions that had not been answered.”
    Minutes, 29 Jul 2026, 23 - 27 Woodbridge Road East Ipswich Suffolk

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Ipswich’s published planning committee minutes, 15 meetings from June 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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