Sam Gerstein.
Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026
A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 95% across 21 decided planning applications, spanning 5 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.
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The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Sam Gerstein decided — 1 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.
Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–26.[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 Barnet planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Barnet decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
- [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.