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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Lottie Burden.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 91% across 90 decided planning applications, spanning 24 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer90 decisions91% 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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90
Applications
2025–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%92%202591%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate91% · 10th 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 reports20 officer reports parsed
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
15%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
54%
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.

Flooding & drainage
2.95× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.55× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.45× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.16× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.15× borough avg

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

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In their own words

Although the proposed rear dormer is not considered a subordinate feature, due to site specific circumstances it is considered acceptable in terms of character and appearance

26/0204/FUL

the pair of semi-detached properties will create a near matching set and will re-balance the pair

26/0204/FUL

Measured from 20 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 cited most on decision notices for applications Lottie Burden decided — 25 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

CDH01Promoting High Quality DesignBarnet plan
25 times cited
CDH05Extensions to buildings must follow good design principlesBarnet plan
25 times cited
D6London Plan
4 times cited
D3London Plan
2 times cited
CDH07Barnet plan
1 times cited
G7London Plan
1 times cited
ECC07Barnet plan
1 times cited
G5London Plan
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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
26/1411/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-08
26/1364/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/1411/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-08
26/1364/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. NewT Design & Build Ltd
2. EA Town Planning Ltd
3. BCS Partnership
4. John Perrin & Sons Ltd
At a glance
OfficerLottie Burden
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications90 (2025–26)
Approval rate91%
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 20 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.