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AtlasHackneyOfficersTimothy Walder
Case officer · Hackney Planning

Timothy Walder.

Last recorded decision Mar 2022 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 97% across 31 decided planning applications, spanning 14 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer31 decisions97% approvalSave
Hackney · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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31
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202196%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate97% · 2nd 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 reports23 officer reports parsed
14%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
76%
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.

Materials & detailing
1.72× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.37× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.02× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.28× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Walder's listed-building casework quotes the full statutory listing description at length and traces a building's construction/conversion history using named historic photographs and Ordnance Survey map evidence to establish what fabric is genuinely original before assessing a proposal against it.

Observable habits

· quotes the full statutory listing description of the building at length before assessing any proposal against it

· traces a building's history using named specific historic evidence (a dated photograph, an Ordnance Survey map year) to establish what is genuinely original fabric

· distinguishes windows/doors nearing the end of their usable life (replacement appropriate) from historic fabric worth retaining

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the complete statutory listing description quoted in full as the basis for any heritage judgement

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: specific named historic evidence (a dated photograph, an Ordnance Survey map) establishing what fabric is genuinely original versus later alteration

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether existing windows/doors are genuinely nearing the end of their usable life (justifying replacement) or retain historic value worth preserving

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In their own words

Early-mid C19 villa of 3 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Stock brick. Fairly low-pitched hipped slate roof with eaves soffit. Stuccoed basement. Moulded architraves to replaced sash windows, those on ground floor with console bracketed cornices.

2021/0490

A 1980 photo shows the building as a family home in good condition and gives clues to the original form of the boundary wall. A 1986 photo shows the building derelict, almost windowless and with no roof covering as a result of a fire.

2021/0490

The current windows date from the 1990s and are considered to be nearing the end of their usable life and thus replacements are appropriate.

2021/1597

Measured from 23 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 23 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

LP3Designated Heritage Assets
30 times cited
LP1Part A will be applied having regard to the scale and location of the
27 times cited
HC1Allocation: Mixed use
21 times cited
LP2Development and Amenity
17 times cited
D6Allocation: Retail/market uses
14 times cited
D3Allocation: Mixed-use including residential
11 times cited
LP17Housing Design
8 times cited
LP54Overheating and Adapting to Climate Change
6 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
2021/2244
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2022-06-09
2021/0490
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-06-09
2021/2244
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2022-06-09
2021/0490
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-06-09
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Michael Dyson Associates Ltd.
2. Potter Raper Ltd
3. JALA
4. Pamphilon Architects
At a glance
OfficerTimothy Walder
BoroughHackney
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications31 (2020–22)
Approval rate97%
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, 2020–22. · 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 23 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.