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Case officer · Hackney Planning

Tim Wilson.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 66% across 69 decided planning applications, spanning 18 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer69 decisions66% 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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69
Applications
2022–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%67%202566%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate66% · 46th 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 reports25 officer reports parsed
21%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
4%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
72%
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.

Noise & disturbance
1.95× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
1.55× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.17× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.07× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.06× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“A scheme of soundproofing shall be submitted to the local planning authority for written approval for Flat 1 to protect future occupants of this first floor flat from internal noise from the established commercial / workshop premises below.”

2024/0871

Measured from 25 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 25 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3Allocation: Mixed-use including residential
11 times cited
D4Allocation: Mixed-use including residential
10 times cited
D1130 Kingsland High Street and site to the rear 130A Kingsland High
9 times cited
LP1Part A will be applied having regard to the scale and location of the
9 times cited
LP2Development and Amenity
9 times cited
LP54Overheating and Adapting to Climate Change
8 times cited
LP55Mitigating Climate Change
8 times cited
LP33Hackney Central and Dalston
7 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
10
75%
7
75%
6
100%
6
33%
5
0%
5
60%
5
67%
4
67%
3
100%
3
100%
3
100%
3
–
2
0%
2
50%
2
0%
1
–
1
–
1
–
10
75%
7
75%
6
100%
Show all 18 rows
6
33%
5
0%
5
60%
5
67%
4
67%
3
100%
3
100%
3
100%
3
–
2
0%
2
50%
2
0%
1
–
1
–
1
–

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–26.[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
2026/0719
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-06-04
2026/0713
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-06-04
2026/0719
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-06-04
2026/0713
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-06-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Nicholas Lee Architects Ltd.
2. Barker Shorten Architects LLP
3. Redwoods Projects
4. Firstplan
At a glance
OfficerTim Wilson
BoroughHackney
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications69 (2022–26)
Approval rate66%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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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, 2022–26. · 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 25 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.