Aidan Hughes.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Havering with an approval rate of 73% across 1,600 decided planning applications, spanning 26 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 Havering reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“It is considered that the proposal would not have an have unacceptable impact on the character with the immediate vicinity as the proposal would not impact upon the street scene as it would be screened by the existing garage.”
P0245.24 · recommendation: It is recommended that planning permission be GRANTED subject to the condition(s) given at the end of the report
“It is considered the provision of a detached two storey dwelling in that location would form an unacceptable relationship.”
P0509.24 · recommendation: It is recommended that planning permission be REFUSED for the following reason(s)
“It is considered the roof enlargement would not have an unacceptable impact on the street scene.”
P1337.24 · recommendation: It is recommended that planning permission be REFUSED for the reason(s) given at the end of the report
Measured from 23 published Havering 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 23 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–26.[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 Havering planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 — Havering's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 23 published Havering 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.