Kensington and Chelsea planning committee

Councillor Will Lane

Queen's Gate wardMember, Planning Applications Committee

Seen at planning committee from September 2025 to April 2026

  • 100%attendance
  • 23recorded votes
  • 19agreed, no vote against recorded
  • 100%with the majority
  • 9%against officer advice

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 6 October 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Kensington and Chelsea’s published minutes, Councillor Will Lane attended 6 of the 6 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from September 2025 to April 2026. Each member's vote is recorded on 23 decisions at those meetings: Lane voted for the resolution on all 23. On 22 of those votes the officers’ recommendation is known, and 2 went against it. On 19 other decisions the minutes record no vote against, so Lane is counted as agreeing; they are left out of the shares below. Lane proposed 3 motions the committee passed and seconded 1.

Meetings attended
6 of 6100%
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
52
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
Recorded votes
23
Decisions where the minutes, the council's recorded vote or the meeting's recording give each member's vote: 23 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.
With the majority
23 of 23100%
Votes for the resolution the committee passed. An abstention is not counted as with the majority.
Agreed, no vote against recorded
19
Decisions the minutes record with no vote against and no count. Counted as agreeing, and left out of the shares.
Votes against officer advice
2 of 229%
Recorded votes where the officers’ recommendation is known: for a resolution that went against it, or against one that followed it.
Proposed or seconded
3 / 1
Motions the minutes say they proposed, then seconded, that the committee passed.
Declared interests
2
Decisions on which the minutes record them declaring an interest.

Voting record

Votes by quarter

For the resolution on all 23 recorded votes; the most in Q4 2025 (16).

23 recorded votes, by the quarter of the meeting.

ForAgainstAbstained
0816
2025
2026
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Votes by quarter
QuarterForAgainstAbstained
Q3 2025600
Q4 20251600
Q2 2026100

Against officer advice

Lane went against officer advice less often than the committee: 9% of votes, against 15% of decisions.

The share that went against the officers’ recommendation.

Lane’s votes9%2 of 22
The committee’s decisions at their meetings15%7 of 48

The typical member of this committee (the median of 13 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.

Motions they proposed

1 of the 3 motions Lane proposed was to approve, 2 to refuse.

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

Approved 1Refused 2

Attendance

100%

6 of 6 meetings whose minutes list them.

The typical member of this committee attended 100% (the median of 7 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

Present
20252026

Planning Applications Committee: 4 meetings · Planning Committee: 2 meetings

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
16 Apr 2026Planning Applications CommitteePresent
16 Dec 2025Planning CommitteePresent
11 Nov 2025Planning CommitteePresent
4 Nov 2025Planning Applications CommitteePresent
9 Oct 2025Planning Applications CommitteePresent
23 Sep 2025Planning Applications CommitteePresent

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 Lane 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.

  • Moved approval
    “Resolved unanimously as proposed by Cllr Will Lane and seconded by Cllr Lloyd North: to grant planning permission subject to the following conditions.”
    Minutes, 9 Oct 2025, 23 Ifield Road, London
  • Seconded
    “Resolved unanimously as proposed by Cllr Lloyd North and seconded by Cllr Will Lane: to grant planning permission subject to the following conditions.”
    Minutes, 9 Oct 2025, 11 Ladbroke Road, London

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Kensington and Chelsea’s published planning committee minutes, 17 meetings from September 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.

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