Cari Jones.
Last recorded decision Aug 2023 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Barking And Dagenham with an approval rate of 57% across 617 decided planning applications, spanning 23 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.
Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Barking And Dagenham reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Jones' caseload spans householder extensions, HMO change-of-use applications and small new-build infill dwellings, and she is the most policy-citation-dense officer in the borough's high-volume group, routinely walking through NPPF paragraph numbers, National Described Space Standards (NDSS) tables, and the specific Barking and Dagenham Local Development Framework/Core Strategy policy numbers (CP3, BP8, BP11, CM2) in sequence before reaching a verdict. On HMO conversions she checks the National Technical Housing Standards' gross-internal-area and storage requirements room-by-room and explicitly flags where 'the floor plans also fail to display the proposed number of bedspaces per bedroom' as an assessment obstacle rather than assuming compliance. On new-build infill in gardens/banjo plots she is attentive to Becontree Estate corner-plot character, citing the SPD's caution that 'on particularly prominent corners, extensions should not normally extend beyond the adjacent building line'.
· on HMO conversions, checks the National Technical Housing Standards room-by-room (gross internal area, storage, bedroom dimensions) and explicitly notes where floor plans fail to state bedspace counts as an assessment obstacle rather than assuming the applicant's figures
· sequences policy citations methodically — NPPF paragraph, then London Plan/Draft London Plan policy, then Core Strategy/Borough Wide DPD policy, then Draft Local Plan policy — before reaching a verdict, rather than citing one policy in isolation
· on corner-plot/banjo infill schemes, checks the SPD's own caution about corner plots being 'particularly prominent parts of the street scene' before any other design consideration
· whether HMO/flat conversion floor plans state the number of bedspaces per bedroom, without which 'officers were unable to make an effective assessment'
· whether gross internal area and built-in storage for each unit meet the National Technical Housing Standards table for that bedroom/person count
· whether the specific PTAL band's off-street parking provision (per Table 10.3 of the Draft London Plan) has been met given the site's public transport accessibility
“The floor plans also fail to display the proposed number of bedspaces per bedroom and as such, officers were unable to make an effective assessment”
20/01018/FULL
“The floor plans also fail to display the proposed number of bedspaces per bedroom and as such, officers were unable to make an effective assessment”
20/01018/FULL
Measured from 592 published Barking And Dagenham officer reports written by this officer, with recited policy boilerplate stripped before any counting. These describe how this officer works and writes — they are not outcome predictions. Every quote is from a named public report.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 592 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–23.[1] Click the map above to focus this page on a ward, or a row to open the ward.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Barking And Dagenham planning register and published decision notices, 2020–23. · methodology
- [2]Appeal overturn and decision-time benchmarks — Planning Inspectorate (PINS) appeal decisions and application date pairs; not yet computed per officer, shown as a dash until they are. · PINS appeals casework
- [3]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Barking And Dagenham decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 592 published Barking And Dagenham officer reports written by this officer, recited policy boilerplate stripped before counting; disposition text coded from their own reasoning with every quote machine-verified verbatim. Descriptive of how they work — not outcome predictions.