Paige Ireland.
Last recorded decision Dec 2021 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Brent with an approval rate of 59% across 60 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.
Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Brent reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Ireland's reports on employment/office conversions and larger residential schemes cite specific census car-ownership data (2011/2021) to justify parking allowance assumptions, and refusals for backland/infill housing set out DMP19 amenity space compliance calculations per unit type with the shortfall explained rather than merely stated.
· cites specific 2011/2021 census car-ownership data to justify a parking demand assumption for flats
· sets out DMP19 amenity space compliance per unit with the shortfall explained, not just noted
· notes historical evidence (aerial photos, prior planning conditions) for whether an existing space was genuinely used for parking before assessing its loss
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: specific census car-ownership data used to justify a parking demand assumption
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: DMP19 amenity space compliance calculated and explained per unit type, not just a pass/fail flag
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: historical evidence (aerial photography, prior conditions) of whether a space was genuinely used for parking before assessing its loss
“The six proposed new flats would then generate further parking demand, estimated at about four cars (75% of the maximum parking allowance and consistent with 2011 Census data for car ownership for flats in the area).”
20/0694
“The existing drawing shows that the garages each have a single door access and therefore they are unlikely to have been used for parking for some time. To confirm this, google view 2012 also shows the garages have a single door access.”
20/0120
Measured from 68 published Brent 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 68 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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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.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Brent planning register and published decision notices, 2020–21. · 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 — Brent's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 68 published Brent 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.