Lora-Jane Miller-Jones
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West Suffolk planning committee

Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones

Member, Development Control Committee

Seen at planning committee from June 2025 to September 2026

  • 79%attendance
  • 14agreed, no vote against recorded
  • 28decisions at their meetings

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 2 September 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of West Suffolk’s published minutes, Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones attended 11 of the 14 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from June 2025 to September 2026. On 14 other decisions the minutes record no vote against, so Miller-Jones is counted as agreeing; they are left out of the shares below.

Meetings attended
11 of 1479%
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
28
Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
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.
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 Miller-Jones and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

79%

11 of 14 meetings whose minutes list them; apologies for 3.

The typical member of this committee attended 87% (the median of 17 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

PresentApologies
20252026

Development Control Committee: 11 meetings

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
2 Sep 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
5 Aug 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
1 Jul 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
3 Jun 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
29 Apr 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
1 Apr 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
4 Mar 2026Development Control CommitteeApologies
7 Jan 2026Development Control CommitteePresent
3 Dec 2025Development Control CommitteePresent
5 Nov 2025Development Control CommitteePresent
3 Sep 2025Development Control CommitteePresent
6 Aug 2025Development Control CommitteeApologies
9 Jul 2025Development Control CommitteeApologies
4 Jun 2025Development Control 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 Miller-Jones 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 neighbours' amenity
    “Councillor Miller-Jones also made reference to the fact that increased landscaping would further mitigate noise impacts on both nearby residents and wildlife.”
    Minutes, 5 Aug 2026, Land South Of Knox Lane Bardwell Suffolk
  • Spoke on the conditions
    “Councillor Miller-Jones explained that she would be minded to support the application if it could be conditioned to require a further glint and glare study to be undertaken, together with a subsequent condition to require mature planting to be undertaken prior to solar panels being installed on site.”
    Minutes, 5 Aug 2026, Land South Of Knox Lane Bardwell Suffolk
  • Moved refusal
    “Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones proposed that the application be refused, contrary to the Officer recommendation, as the application failed to meet the Policy LP1 requirement for BREEAM ‘Excellent’.”
    Minutes, 5 Aug 2026, Land North Of Rougham Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
  • Spoke on trees and wildlife
    “Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones made reference to the proposal’s removal of significant amounts of native hedgerow to enable visibility splays and voiced great concern at the loss of these essential habitats.”
    Minutes, 3 Jun 2026, Land North East Of Bury St Edmunds Bury Road Great Barton Suffolk
  • Moved refusal
    “Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones proposed that the application be refused, contrary to the Officer recommendation, as the application failed to meet the Policy LP1 requirement for BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and demonstrated a shortfall against the full ambitions of Policy LP41, insofar as not all reasonable opportunities to encourage active travel had been taken.”
    Minutes, 3 Jun 2026, Land North Of Rougham Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
  • Moved approval
    “Councillor Lora-Jane Miller-Jones proposed that the application be approved, as per the Officer recommendation. She also referenced the ‘social sessions’ covered in the Case Officer’s presentation whereby users would not need to pre-book and could use an access code that will work at set times.”
    Minutes, 3 Sep 2025, Motts Field Chalkstone Way Haverhill Suffolk
  • Asked a question
    “Councillor Miller-Jones asked if it would be possible to propose a proportion of the opening time to be operated in this way in order to allow the facility to be as inclusive and flexible for users as possible.”
    Minutes, 3 Sep 2025, Motts Field Chalkstone Way Haverhill Suffolk

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from West Suffolk’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.

Also on this committee

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