Sunderland planning committee

Councillor Martyn Preston Herron

Member, Planning and Highways Committee

Seen at planning committee in March 2026

  • 1 of 1meeting attended
  • 13decisions at their meetings

As at 28 September 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Sunderland’s published minutes, Councillor Martyn Preston Herron attended one planning committee meeting, in March 2026. The committee decided 13 applications 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.
Decisions at their meetings
13
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 Herron and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

1 of 1

1 of 1 meeting whose minutes list them.

Every meeting

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

Present
2026

Planning and Highways Committee: 1 meeting

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
30 Mar 2026Planning and Highways CommitteePresent

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 Herron 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 Herron commented that his generation had made memories in places like the Crowtree and in Ku Club on High Street West and these developments would be where the next generation of residents would make their memories and would transform and turbocharge the Sunderland skyline bringing the city centre into 21 st Century.”
    Minutes, 30 Mar 2026, 56-90 High Street West Sunderland

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Sunderland’s published planning committee minutes, 5 meetings from March 2026 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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