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Case officer · Harrow Planning

Lee Connor.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Harrow with an approval rate of 78% across 643 decided planning applications, spanning 24 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer643 decisions78% approvalSave
Harrow · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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643
Applications
2022–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%70%202274%202378%202486%202576%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate78% · 26th of 72
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 reports575 officer reports parsed
14%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
2%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
1%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
54%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Harrow's average officer

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

Daylight & sunlight
1.75× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.43× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.08× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.04× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.03× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Connor's reports cover a wide mix of householder extensions, telecoms prior approvals and heritage-sensitive conservation area work, and his prose repeatedly leans on citing prior planning history on the same site (often the exact application reference and what changed) to justify or distinguish the current scheme. On refusals he sets the harm out in a single dense character-and-appearance paragraph naming the specific roof form or massing at fault; on grants he is comfortable citing appeal decisions and Conservation Area Appraisal wording verbatim to support a design conclusion.

Observable habits

· cites the exact prior application reference and what dimension changed between it and the current scheme ('Revisions to Previous Application P/2280/23 - The projection of the proposed rear extension has been reduced by 0.3m')

· quotes Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy text directly rather than paraphrasing it

· names the specific policy code alongside the exact numeric non-compliance (e.g. depth in metres beyond SPD guidance) in both grant and refuse reports

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the exact wording of the relevant Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy passage before applying it to the specific scheme

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: what changed, in metres, between a previously refused/approved scheme on the same site and the current resubmission

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a telecoms installation's highway footway width leaves sufficient space for road users to pass safely

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In their own words

It is considered that the proposal is contrived and would have a significant harmful impact on the host properties

PL/0337/23

As such, the impact to No.6 from the two storey extension is considered acceptable

PL/0337/23

Measured from 575 published Harrow 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 575 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3
216 times cited
D12
197 times cited
DM1Achieving a High Standard of Development
187 times cited
CS1.B
179 times cited
DM10On Site Water Management and Surface Water Attenuation
178 times cited
GR1
128 times cited
D11
99 times cited
SI12
59 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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
PL/0324/26
Householder
Approved
2026-06-04
PL/0279/26
Full Planning Application
Refused
2026-05-29
PL/0324/26
Householder
Approved
2026-06-04
PL/0279/26
Full Planning Application
Refused
2026-05-29
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. KDA Designs LTD
2. Construct 360 T/AS DontMoveExtend.com
3. Excel Planning
4. Bischell Construction Ltd.
At a glance
OfficerLee Connor
BoroughHarrow
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications643 (2022–26)
Approval rate78%
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 Harrow 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 Harrow 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 575 published Harrow 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.