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Case officer · Hackney Planning

Danny Huber.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 76% across 631 decided planning applications, spanning 21 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer631 decisions76% approvalSave
Hackney · 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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631
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%80%202070%202176%202274%202374%202485%202584%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate76% · 31st of 52
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 reports462 officer reports parsed
16%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
10%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
2%
"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 Hackney's average officer

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

Flooding & drainage
1.98× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.64× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.26× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.21× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
1.21× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Huber's write-ups are notably compact — short, direct paragraphs per topic heading (Background/Design/Amenity/Drainage) that state a conclusion without extended discursive reasoning, and he frequently references a prior refused/withdrawn scheme on the same site to frame why the current one differs. His housing-mix cases cite the specific DMLP/Core Strategy policy pairing (DM20/DM23 with Core Strategy 19) by number in almost every conversion case.

Observable habits

· keeps each topic section short and conclusion-first rather than working through extended discursive reasoning

· cross-references a site's own prior refused or withdrawn application by reference number to frame what has changed

· cites the DM20/DM23 and Core Strategy 19 policy trio by number in almost every flat-amalgamation or conversion case

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a prior refused or withdrawn application exists on the same site and what specifically has changed

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: robust marketing evidence before accepting the loss of employment floorspace under DM14

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether all units in a conversion comply with National Internal Space Standards, not just the overall scheme

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In their own words

“No evidence has been provided to show that the property has been marketed for the requisite period. The principle of a personal training studio (D2) is therefore considered unacceptable.”

2020/0128

“is supported by Policy DM23 of the Council's Development Management Local Plan which states that conversions are acceptable on units above 120sqm. The scheme is also supported by Policy DM20 of the same and Hackney Core Strategy Policy 19”

2020/0597

“Drainage officers have noted that the site has a 'medium' risk of surface water flooding and that the creation of a self-contained basement flat increases the vulnerability of the site from 'more vulnerable' to 'highly vulnerable'.”

2020/0772

Measured from 462 published Hackney 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 462 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D1130 Kingsland High Street and site to the rear 130A Kingsland High
255 times cited
LP2Development and Amenity
251 times cited
LP1Part A will be applied having regard to the scale and location of the
250 times cited
D3Allocation: Mixed-use including residential
232 times cited
LP55Mitigating Climate Change
187 times cited
LP54Overheating and Adapting to Climate Change
185 times cited
G6
161 times cited
HC1Allocation: Mixed use
151 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
60
63%
53
70%
53
60%
45
81%
44
86%
44
78%
37
64%
36
75%
32
96%
31
77%
28
83%
24
70%
23
89%
20
89%
19
82%
19
76%
16
92%
14
85%
12
78%
11
90%
10
50%
60
63%
53
70%
53
60%
Show all 21 rows
45
81%
44
86%
44
78%
37
64%
36
75%
32
96%
31
77%
28
83%
24
70%
23
89%
20
89%
19
82%
19
76%
16
92%
14
85%
12
78%
11
90%
10
50%

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
2026/0721
Householder Planning
Approved
2026-06-04
2026/0237
Householder Planning
Approved
2026-05-20
2026/0721
Householder Planning
Approved
2026-06-04
2026/0237
Householder Planning
Approved
2026-05-20
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. SAM Planning services
2. Redwoods Projects Ltd
3. Eade Planning Ltd
4. Prestige Planning Ltd.
At a glance
OfficerDanny Huber
BoroughHackney
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications631 (2020–26)
Approval rate76%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Hackney planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Hackney 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 462 published Hackney 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.