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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Frances Haines.

Last recorded decision Dec 2021 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 82% across 212 decided planning applications, spanning 20 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer212 decisions82% 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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212
Applications
2020–21
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%79%202085%202175%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate82% · 42nd 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 reports46 officer reports parsed
25%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
50%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
7%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
49%
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.

Outlook & amenity
1.14× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.02× borough avg
Trees & landscape
0.99× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
0.88× borough avg
Bulk & massing
0.78× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“Paragraph 2.8.1 of the Policy DM01 states that: "Conversions may be appropriate in certain types of property or street particularly where they are highly accessible"”

20/0480/FUL

“the required cycle parking provision is 3 spaces in total (1 for the 1 bed unit and 2 for the 2 bed unit)”

20/0480/FUL

Measured from 46 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 46 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS1 arnet’s place shaping strategy – protection,
38 times cited
CS5 rotecting and enhancing Barnet’s character
37 times cited
CS NPPF
37 times cited
DM01Protecting Barnet’s character and amenity Page
7 times cited
DM02Development standards Page
5 times cited
CS14Dealing with our waste
3 times cited
DM04Environmental Considerations for
2 times cited
CS9Enlargement of School Facilities CS10 DM
2 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
36
84%
34
81%
21
89%
21
90%
20
74%
20
79%
14
85%
8
50%
7
80%
6
83%
5
100%
4
100%
4
100%
2
50%
2
100%
2
100%
2
100%
2
50%
1
0%
1
100%
36
84%
34
81%
21
89%
Show all 20 rows
21
90%
20
74%
20
79%
14
85%
8
50%
7
80%
6
83%
5
100%
4
100%
4
100%
2
50%
2
100%
2
100%
2
100%
2
50%
1
0%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–21.[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
21/6246/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2022-02-18
20/1150/FUL
Full Application
Refused
2022-01-26
21/6246/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2022-02-18
20/1150/FUL
Full Application
Refused
2022-01-26
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. UPP - Urban Planning Practice
2. ADARA
3. EA Town Planning Ltd
4. HFM Design
At a glance
OfficerFrances Haines
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications212 (2020–21)
Approval rate82%
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, 2020–21. · 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 46 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.