The Planning Advisory Committee of Ealing Council met on Wednesday 26 November 2025, to discuss a Community-led Regeneration Charter, and to review the minutes of their previous meeting. The committee was also scheduled to discuss future items for consideration.

Community-led Regeneration Charter

The committee was scheduled to discuss a draft Community-led Regeneration Charter. The council has a commitment to create a charter that:

sets out clear rights for residents to shape and control the decisions being taken in their communities on housing and employment.

The report pack stated that the council wants to work with communities and partners to understand how good engagement should be carried out between all stakeholders involved in regeneration projects, and how compromises must be reached to unlock the best possible solutions.

The charter is intended to be a short document with a list of commitments and a toolkit on how the council and its partners need to engage meaningfully with communities, sitting alongside the recently published Community Charter. It will define clear roles and responsibilities, signpost existing regeneration strategies, and include case studies of best practice.

The meeting was scheduled to include a discussion of the charter with residents, community groups and developers, to allow the committee to hear their experiences of, and role in, regeneration.

Previous Meeting

The committee was asked to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 24 June 2025 as a correct record of proceedings. At that meeting, the committee:

• Heard from Jennifer Peters about the new London Plan (LP). She noted that the committee had missed the deadline for comments on the Towards a New LP document published in May 2025, but that there would be other opportunities to contribute in the future. She also noted that the Mayor of London had agreed to the government's new higher target of 880,000 new homes over 10 years, meaning that the new London Plan will need to plan for a far higher number of homes than the current London Plan, and that this was expected to reflect onto higher housing targets for Ealing.
• Discussed a Planning Reform Working Paper presented by Jennifer Peters, which was part of an ongoing government consultation concerning changes to the planning system. The consultation was to ensure that the right incentives exist in the housing market and that local planning authorities possessed the correct tools to encourage homes to be constructed more quickly.

Future Items

The Chair, Councillor Sanjai Kohli, invited members of the committee to discuss future items that they would like to cover in upcoming meetings. Items of interest suggested by the committee included:

• Comparing the future Ealing Plan to both the current and future London Plans, especially on issues such as the future of the Green Belt¹.
• A deeper investigation into planning statistics in Ealing and comparing them to other London Boroughs and Councils across England and Wales.
• Inviting Chairs or representatives of stakeholder groups such as Residents' Associations, Ealing Civic Society, Community Advisory Panel, and the Design and Review Panel.
• A discussion on conservation areas inviting the Conservation Officers from the Ealing planning team to explain to the committee the work that they are engaged in and the efforts across the Borough.