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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Joe Davies.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 79% across 94 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer94 decisions79% 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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94
Applications
2025–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%86%202577%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate79% · 58th 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 reports24 officer reports parsed
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Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
—
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
8%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
56%
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
2.68× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.87× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.4× borough avg
Materials & detailing
0.99× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
0.73× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“Howard Walk was designed by C.M. Crickmer and built in 1935 in the white rendered modernist style sold as "sun-trap"”

26/0285/HSE

“This set back, combined with vegetation in the form of trees and hedges to the front of the application site mean the proposed development is not visible from the street, in line with Design Guidance”

26/0285/HSE

Measured from 24 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 24 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CDH01Promoting High Quality Design
1 times cited
CDH05 Policy CDH01 of the Local Plan states developments will be expected to respond sensitively to the distinctive local character and design
1 times cited
building form
1 times cited
patterns of development
1 times cited
scale
1 times cited
massing
1 times cited
roof form and height of the existing context
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
7
100%
7
100%
6
60%
6
67%
6
80%
5
75%
5
80%
5
75%
5
100%
5
67%
5
33%
4
100%
4
75%
4
100%
4
100%
3
33%
3
100%
3
0%
2
100%
2
–
2
100%
1
100%
7
100%
7
100%
6
60%
Show all 22 rows
6
67%
6
80%
5
75%
5
80%
5
75%
5
100%
5
67%
5
33%
4
100%
4
75%
4
100%
4
100%
3
33%
3
100%
3
0%
2
100%
2
–
2
100%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025–26.[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
26/0885/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-10
26/1451/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-09
26/0885/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-10
26/1451/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-09
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. AURAA LTD
2. The Loft Converter
3. Steven Gray Design Limited
4. Architectural Services
At a glance
OfficerJoe Davies
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications94 (2025–26)
Approval rate79%
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, 2025–26. · 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 24 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.