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Case officer · Enfield Planning

Ciara Ward.

Recently active — last recorded decision Nov 2024

A case officer at Enfield with an approval rate of 67% across 15 decided planning applications, spanning 10 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer15 decisions67% approvalSave
Enfield · 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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15
Applications
2022–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%63%202367%2024100%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate67% · 43rd of 63
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 reports83 officer reports parsed
21%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
1%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
59%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Enfield's average officer

Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Enfield reports. Attention, not stance.

Privacy & overlooking
2.13× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.7× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.3× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.03× borough avg

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

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In their own words

Rear Dormer Depth � 3.85m Width � 5.73m Height � 2.7m D x W x H /2 = 29.8 Hip to Gable Depth � 8.66m Width � 4.33m Height � 3.15m D x W x H /6 = 19.7m Total Volume=49.5m3 < 50m3

22/03769/CEA

(ii) Dormer inset from eaves by 200m? No No No No Yes � confirmed on drawings Yes � confirmed on drawings Yes � confirmed via email dated 6th December 2022

22/03771/CEA

Measured from 83 published Enfield 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 83 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DMD 6
2 times cited
DMD6
2 times cited
DMD8
2 times cited
DMD37
2 times cited
DMD 11
1 times cited
CP30MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE BUILT AND OPEN ENVIRONMENT All developments and interventions in the public realm must be high quality and design-l
1 times cited
DMD12
1 times cited
DMD68
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–24.[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
24/03989/HOU
Householder
Approved
2025-01-13
23/03184/FUL
Full
Refused
2024-03-01
24/03989/HOU
Householder
Approved
2025-01-13
23/03184/FUL
Full
Refused
2024-03-01
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. TTA Architects
2. BILD
3. Armstrong Simmonds Architects
4. CG Architects
At a glance
OfficerCiara Ward
BoroughEnfield
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications15 (2022–24)
Approval rate67%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Enfield planning register and published decision notices, 2022–24. · 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 Enfield 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 83 published Enfield 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.