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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Ed Hollingworth.

Last recorded decision May 2024 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 89% across 131 decided planning applications, spanning 23 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer131 decisions89% approvalSave
Barnet · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
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131
Applications
2023–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%98%202384%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate89% · 13th of 85
higher is betterdashed = London avg
Decision time · publishes with decision notices
in development
Appeal overturn · publishes with decision notices
in development
How this officer decides — from their own reports25 officer reports parsed
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
12%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
53%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Barnet's average officer

Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Barnet reports. Attention, not stance.

Bulk & massing
2.52× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
2.12× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.55× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.49× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.33× borough avg

Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.

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In their own words

the proposed development is almost exactly the same as the development that was approved under application ref. 23/0601/HSE, except that it proposes a slightly different roof light over the side/rear extension, and a different fenestration arrangement

24/0004/HSE

For this building the bricks should be laid in a Flemish bond using Gault brickwork (a whitish yellow brick) to match the existing

24/0004/HSE

Measured from 25 published Barnet 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.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 25 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS NPPF
25 times cited
CS1 arnet’s place shaping strategy – protection,
25 times cited
DM01Protecting Barnet’s character and amenity Page
25 times cited
CS5 rotecting and enhancing Barnet’s character
24 times cited
DM02Development standards Page
23 times cited
DM06Barnet’s heritage and conservation Page
3 times cited
DM04Environmental Considerations for
1 times cited
DM02 and DM06
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2023–24.[1] Click the map above to focus this page on a ward, or a row to open the ward.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
24/0058/HSE
Householder Application
Refused
2024-06-26
24/1650/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2024-06-14
24/0058/HSE
Householder Application
Refused
2024-06-26
24/1650/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2024-06-14
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Craft Architects Ltd
2. UPP Architects + Town Planners
3. Henry Planning Ltd
4. EA Town Planning Limited
At a glance
OfficerEd Hollingworth
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications131 (2023–24)
Approval rate89%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Barnet planning register and published decision notices, 2023–24. · methodology
  2. [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. [3]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Barnet decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 25 published Barnet 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.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.