Tom Spenser
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Woking planning committee

Councillor Tom Spenser

St Johns wardMember, Planning Committee

Seen at planning committee from May 2025 to July 2026

  • 85%attendance
  • 26decisions at their meetings

Councillor's page on the council's website

As at 14 July 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Woking’s published minutes, Councillor Tom Spenser attended 11 of the 13 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from May 2025 to July 2026. The committee decided 26 applications at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them.

Meetings attended
11 of 1385%
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
26
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 Spenser and no voting chart is drawn.

Attendance

85%

11 of 13 meetings whose minutes list them; apologies for 2.

The typical member of this committee attended 92% (the median of 9 members listed at 5 or more meetings).

Every meeting

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

PresentApologies
20252026

Planning Committee: 11 meetings

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Every meeting
DateCommitteeAttendance
14 Jul 2026Planning CommitteePresent
2 Jun 2026Planning CommitteeApologies
14 Apr 2026Planning CommitteePresent
10 Mar 2026Planning CommitteePresent
10 Feb 2026Planning CommitteePresent
13 Jan 2026Planning CommitteePresent
9 Dec 2025Planning CommitteePresent
11 Nov 2025Planning CommitteePresent
14 Oct 2025Planning CommitteePresent
2 Sep 2025Planning CommitteeApologies
15 Jul 2025Planning CommitteePresent
3 Jun 2025Planning CommitteePresent
19 May 2025Planning 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 Spenser 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

  • Seconded
    “Councillor L Morales proposed, and it was duly seconded by Councillor T Spenser that a condition be added to require the door to be obscure glazed.”
    Minutes, 3 Jun 2025, Danescross Pond Road Woking Surrey
  • Seconded
    “Councillor C Martin proposed, and it was duly seconded by Councillor T Spenser, that the application be refused on the grounds that the retrospectively built single storey front extension represented a highly visible, insubordinate and bulky addition to the front elevation which would be out of character with the surrounding street scene.”
    Minutes, 3 Jun 2025, 48 Queen Elizabeth Way Kingfield Woking Surrey

How this is worked out

Everything here is read from Woking’s published planning committee minutes, 13 meetings from May 2025 to July 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.

Also on this committee

All Woking committee councillors