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Case officer · Hillingdon Planning

Alan Corcoran.

Recently active — last recorded decision Aug 2025

A case officer at Hillingdon with an approval rate of 74% across 154 decided planning applications, spanning 20 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer154 decisions74% approvalSave
Hillingdon · 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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154
Applications
2022–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%67%202481%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate74% · 38th of 59
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 reports

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Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Alan Corcoran decided — 80 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

DMHB11Design of New DevelopmentHillingdon plan
22 times cited
T5London Plan
10 times cited
T6London Plan
10 times cited
DMT2Highways ImpactsHillingdon plan
10 times cited
DMT5Pedestrians and CyclistsHillingdon plan
9 times cited
DMHB14Trees and LandscapingHillingdon plan
9 times cited
SI13London Plan
7 times cited
G5London Plan
6 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–25.[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
73243/APP/2025/1523
Planning Application
Approved
2025-11-17
19637/APP/2025/191
Planning Application
Refused
2025-11-12
73243/APP/2025/1523
Planning Application
Approved
2025-11-17
19637/APP/2025/191
Planning Application
Refused
2025-11-12
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. MRS RAMELA MATHYSOOTHANAN MKM DESIGN & CONSTRUCATION LIMITED BRIDGEWATER ROAD HA4
2. Miss Tamera Brooks First Home Improvements Ltd Station Road Industrial Estate Lenwade NR9
3. Katie Hogendoorn Walsingham Planning Cores End Road Bourne End SL8
4. Mr Jarrod Spencer Weston Group Business Centre Parsonage Road Takeley CM22
At a glance
OfficerAlan Corcoran
BoroughHillingdon
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications154 (2022–25)
Approval rate74%
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 Hillingdon planning register and published decision notices, 2022–25. · 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 Hillingdon decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.