Plota now has a page for about 8,000 councillors who sit on planning committees, at 380 councils across the UK. Each page sets out how they vote, how often they attend and which applications they have decided.
A page for each councillor
Each councillor's page opens with their photo, party, ward and role on the committee, then the figures that matter: how many meetings they attended, how many votes they cast, how often they voted with the majority, how often they went against the planning officers' advice, and how many motions they proposed and seconded.
How they vote
The voting record charts every vote by quarter, for, against and abstained, and sets how often the councillor went against officers beside the rate for the whole committee.
Who they vote with
On every divided vote, the page shows how often the councillor voted the same way as each colleague on the committee, and as each party group, from most to least.
Attendance
Every meeting is a square, present or sending apologies, with the councillor's attendance set against the typical member of the same committee.
What they said
The page quotes what the minutes record each councillor moving, seconding, asking and raising, in the minutes' own words, grouped by subject: parking and traffic, trees and nature, design, heritage, neighbours, housing, flooding.
Below the charts is every application decided at a meeting the councillor sat on, with the outcome and how they voted.
Who decided every committee decision
Every planning committee decision now lists the councillors at the meeting: the Chair, the Vice-Chair and every member present, with their party, apologies, substitutes, declared interests, and who proposed and seconded the motion. Each councillor's vote sits beside their name, with a line saying how it is known: a recorded vote naming each member, a unanimous vote, or a decision the minutes record with no vote against.
On 26 August Arun's planning committee approved a scaffolding yard at P and O Scaffolding Ltd in Littlehampton, although its planning officers had recommended refusal. The minutes name each vote: 6 for, 2 against and 2 abstentions. The Chair voted against. The decision's page lists the 10 members with their party and vote, the member who declared an interest, the councillor who sent apologies and the 4 others who attended.
Woking's planning committee approved fixings at the Hilton Hotel on Victoria Way on 15 July 2025. The minutes record the decision with no vote against, so the decision's page shows the 5 members who voted as For (no vote against recorded). Louise Morales, who declared a pecuniary interest and could not speak or vote on it, is shown without a vote, and the page lists the 3 who sent apologies and the 1 absent.
Watch the meeting
More than 1,900 meetings link to the council's own recording of the committee. Each decision's video now opens at the moment the committee took that application, so you can go straight to the debate behind it rather than search through a three-hour meeting.