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Case officer · Hammersmith And Fulham Planning

Grace Harrison.

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

A case officer at Hammersmith And Fulham with an approval rate of 82% across 71 decided planning applications, spanning 8 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer71 decisions82% approvalSave
Hammersmith And Fulham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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71
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%88%202077%202183%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate82% · 40th of 45
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 reports26 officer reports parsed
0%
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
99%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Hammersmith And Fulham's average officer

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

Transport & parking
6.11× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
3.49× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Harrison's smaller sampled caseload spans mansion block alterations, plant/gantry installations and major hotel and mixed-use applications alongside standard extensions, and on large or contested schemes she runs a full numbered committee-report structure engaging closely with technical evidence, most notably interrogating a submitted Transport Assessment's own comparator sites and methodology (their age, size, and geographic relevance) rather than accepting expert submissions at face value — leading her to a refusal where the trip-generation evidence did not stand up to scrutiny. On householder schemes she is comfortable citing a specific reduced-scale comparison against the applicant's OWN previously approved (larger) scheme under its own reference as justification for the smaller current proposal.

Observable habits

· interrogates a submitted technical assessment's own methodology and comparator data (e.g. a Transport Assessment's comparator site age, size and geographic relevance) rather than accepting expert submissions at face value, and is willing to refuse where the evidence does not hold up

· cites a specific reduced-scale comparison against the SAME applicant's own previously approved, larger scheme under its own reference as justification for a smaller current proposal

· on plant/mechanical installations at height, assesses visibility from specific named public vantage points and neighbouring terraces at the same level rather than a blanket visibility judgement

What their reports consistently look for

· whether a submitted Transport Assessment's comparator sites are of comparable age, size and geographic relevance to the application site, rather than accepting the methodology uncritically

· whether a current, reduced-scale proposal compares favourably to the SAME applicant's own previously approved larger scheme under its own reference

· whether rooftop plant or mechanical installations would be visible from specific named public vantage points or neighbouring terraces at the same level

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In their own words

Officers were concerned that the comparator sites chosen were weak indicators of the likely existing trips generated by the existing office building at 26-28 Hammersmith Grove. The surveys were between 6-10 years old and trip patterns could have changed significantly since then.

2021/00537/FUL

This proposal represents development at a reduced scale compared to extensions already approved under application Refs.2018/01459/FUL and 2020/03391/VAR, and instead sees the form of the existing threestorey back addition retained.

2021/00633/FUL

Measured from 26 published Hammersmith And Fulham 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 26 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DC1Built environment quality and integration
25 times cited
DC4High standard of design for alterations and extensions
22 times cited
HO11Detailed Residential Standards
21 times cited
DC8Heritage and conservation: Buildings at risk
19 times cited
CC11Noise and Vibration Control for Developments
15 times cited
CC13Control of potentially polluting uses and environmental nuisance
11 times cited
CC3Flood Risk Assessment Requirement
10 times cited
DC2New build design standards and compatibility
8 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–22.[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
2021/03046/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2022-06-16
2022/00081/FR3
Full Regulation 3 - LBHF is Developer
Approved
2022-06-10
2021/03046/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2022-06-16
2022/00081/FR3
Full Regulation 3 - LBHF is Developer
Approved
2022-06-10
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Mr Paul Bottomley / Town Planning Bureau
2. Mr Mathias Franke / Fulcrum Building Design ltd.
3. Gisele Viselka / AC DESIGN SOLUTIONS
4. Rolfe Judd Planning / Rolfe Judd Planning
At a glance
OfficerGrace Harrison
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications71 (2020–22)
Approval rate82%
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 Hammersmith And Fulham 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 Hammersmith And Fulham 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 26 published Hammersmith And Fulham 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.