People in the chamber
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Showing Planning & Environment Committee Meeting (2023-08-08 to 2023-08-08).
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Brian Stockwell38.9%
- Tom Wegener36.6%
- Clare Stewart (former)18.6%
- Amelia Lorentson5.9%
- Karen Finzel0.0%
Total Speaking Time
Pet Phrases & Platitudes
The phrases we keep an ear on in the chamber, counted across councillor speech in the meeting transcripts in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
2 mentions across all councillors in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting
 Brian Stockwell | ×2 |
 Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
 Karen Finzel | ×0 |
 Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
6 mentions across all councillors in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting
| Brian Stockwell | ×2 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×2 |
| Tom Wegener | ×2 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
“I will”
0 mentions across all councillors in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“STA”
0 mentions across all councillors in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
Attendance
Meetings each councillor attended in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Chairing
Who chaired the meetings in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Stockwell | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 8 August 2023 | 2 min |
| 2 | Tom Wegener chaired this meeting | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 8 August 2023 | 1 min |
| 3 | CSClare Stewart (former) | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 8 August 2023 | 1 min |
| 4 | Amelia Lorentson | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 8 August 2023 | 1 min |
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Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking in Planning & Environment Committee Meeting: all attributed speech in the AI transcripts, split between councillors (chairing included), named council staff (the executive listed in each meeting header), named public speakers, and voices the transcription could not identify. Attribution is automated and can be wrong.
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning & Environment | 1 | 52m | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 8 August 2023 (52m) |
About This Data
Every number on this page is computed from three sources, each used for what it is authoritative about, and every number is at most one click from the public record it came from.
- Meeting transcripts feed speaking time, contributions, phrase counts and topics. Transcription and speaker attribution are machine-assisted and can be wrong. Speaking time includes chairing, which inflates the chair's share.
- Meeting headers (the published attendance record) feed attendance, apologies and chairing. These are structured facts, not transcript inference.
- Official minutes (the statutory record) feed motions, named division votes, conflict-of-interest declarations and transparency counters. Extraction is automated against the statutory wording and can miss or mis-parse entries; each extracted record links to the official minutes so it can be verified at the source.
A phrase count is not a formal declaration or ruling. A conflict-of-interest declaration is the transparency process working, not an accusation. Motion and voting figures count what the minutes record; named For/Against divisions became routine practice around 2025, so earlier years understate division detail.
A notified motion is an item a councillor puts on the agenda themselves. These are counted from the minutes' "Notified Motions" section, one per agenda item, credited to the councillor who moved it. Amendments and restatements of the same item are not counted again, and a conflict-of-interest determination on the item is not treated as authorship. A notice withdrawn before it was moved is recorded in the minutes but is not attributed here, because the withdrawal line is narrative rather than a structured record.
Figures for this view cover 2023-08-08 to 2023-08-08.