James Clark.
Last recorded decision Oct 2023 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 78% across 454 decided planning applications, spanning 21 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 Hackney reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Clark's design assessments frequently anchor on the immediate townscape context — noting where a terrace is 'distinct in townscape terms' from its neighbours or where a building sits at a junction — before applying policy. His sustainability sections are unusually numerate, quoting specific tCO2/year figures and percentage reductions from submitted Energy Strategy Statements rather than a general sustainability conclusion.
· situates a design judgement in the building's specific townscape position (corner plot, junction, distinct roofline within its own terrace) before applying policy
· quotes specific numeric energy-statement figures (tCO2/year, % reduction against baseline) rather than a general sustainability conclusion
· measures neighbour amenity impact in specific metres of extension depth/height against each individually named neighbouring address
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether the specific building's townscape position (corner, junction, distinct typology) changes what's appropriate compared to its neighbours
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the actual tCO2/year and percentage-reduction figures in a submitted Energy Strategy Statement, not just a compliance statement
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: metric distances/heights at each individually affected neighbour's boundary rather than a general amenity conclusion
“the application site consists of three stories like the rest of the terrace it is distinct in townscape terms in that it appears to be of a different typology to the rest of the terrace, notably by including a flat roof rather than the mansard style roofs present on the other properties”
2020/3980
“the estimated total regulated CO2 emissions from the 2 No proposed Flats is 0 tCO2/year when the SAP 10 emission factors are applied as required by the London Plan. The cumulative effect of the final measures implemented in accordance with the GLA's Energy Hierarchy achieve a saving of 4 tCO2/year, which equates to a total of a 104% reduction from the baseline”
2020/3486
“At the boundary with 35 Poole Road the proposed extension would have a height of 2.5 metres and a depth of 3.7 metres. Whilst the depth of the proposed extension would match the depth of the existing extension the height at the boundary would be slightly greater.”
2020/4020
Measured from 415 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 415 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–23.[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 Hackney planning register and published decision notices, 2020–23. · 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 Hackney decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 415 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.