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EIR - Design Review Panel meeting costs [Sep 2025]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA210825-2726

Date of response:

Summary of request

Your request 

Please provide the following information held by the Greater London Authority (Mayor of London/Mayor’s Office):

  1. How many design review panel meetings have been requested by the Mayor’s Office between 9 May 2016 and the date of your response. Please provide the figures broken down by financial year (2016/17 onward).
  2. For the same period, the total annual cost to the GLA/Mayor’s Office of calling/convening those design review panels. Please include, where recorded, fees paid to panel providers/panellists, administration/management fees, venue/hire costs, expenses, and any internal recharges associated with convening the panels. If only aggregate figures are held, please supply the annual aggregate.

Definitions (to aid your search): 

  • “Requested by the Mayor’s Office” includes requests made by the Mayor, Deputy Mayors, the Mayoral Private Office, or the GLA Planning Unit acting on the Mayor’s behalf.
  • “Design review panel” means any formal panel convened or commissioned to review the design quality of a scheme, policy or proposal at the request of the Mayor’s Office, whether delivered by the GLA or an external provider.

Our response

Financial year  Total number of panels requested* Total annual cost Total income
2024/25 6 £36,250 £30,000
2023/24 9 £40,500 £42,000
2022/23 19

£47,750

£56,000
2021/22 10 £40,000 £4,000
2020/21 23 £44,950 £24,000
2019/20 13 £38,800 £20,000
2018/19 17 £41,600 £12,000
2017/18 3 £34,200 £0

*These meetings do not include TfL Commercial / Places for London London Review Panel meetings

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