Watford planning committee

Councillor Sohail Bashir

Member, Development Management Committee

Seen at planning committee from September 2025 to March 2026

  • 2 of 2meetings attended
  • 6decisions at their meetings

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 30 June 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Watford’s published minutes, Councillor Sohail Bashir attended 2 of the 2 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from September 2025 to March 2026. The committee decided 6 applications at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them.

Meetings attended
2 of 2
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
6
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 Bashir and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

2 of 2

2 of 2 meetings whose minutes list them.

The typical member of this committee attended 100% (the median of 9 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

Present
20252026

Development Management Committee: 2 meetings

Show as a table
Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
31 Mar 2026Development Management CommitteePresent
30 Sep 2025Development Management CommitteePresent

Decisions

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

Their vote
Outcome
  • 50 Clarendon Road WatfordResidential and office redevelopment · 25/01060/VARM Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
  • 63 Lower Paddock Road WatfordOne two-bedroom home · 25/00481/FUL Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
  • Land At 1 To 15 Bridle Path WatfordCo-living studio building · 23/01118/FULM Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
  • The Wenta Business Centre Colne Way WatfordFlexible workspace redevelopment · 25/00270/FULM Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
  • Land At Kytes Drive Watford12-home listed building conversion · 23/01098/LBC Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
  • Land At Kytes Drive Watford146-home estate redevelopment · 23/01097/FULM Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted

In the minutes

What the minutes record Bashir 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.

  • Spoke
    “Councillor Bashir then referred to the BRE guidance and asked how the two applications compared with the number of units falling below the guidance.”
    Minutes, 31 Mar 2026, 50 Clarendon Road Watford
  • Spoke
    “Councillor Bashir agreed with these comments.”
    Minutes, 31 Mar 2026, 50 Clarendon Road Watford
  • Asked a question
    “Councillor Bashir asked whether it was possible for the council’s officers to write to the developer stating that the committee would welcome something to be put in place around the site.”
    Minutes, 31 Mar 2026, 50 Clarendon Road Watford

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Watford’s published planning committee minutes, 12 meetings from July 2025 to June 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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