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Case officer · Islington Planning

Eve Mackintosh.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 92% across 503 decided planning applications, spanning 17 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer503 decisions92% approvalSave
Islington · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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503
Applications
2021–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%97%202398%202496%202567%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate92% · 19th of 55
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 reports74 officer reports parsed
5%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
3%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
1%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
65%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Islington's average officer

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

Materials & detailing
2.07× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.35× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
0.91× borough avg
Bulk & massing
0.78× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.77× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Mackintosh quotes UDG or conservation area guidance passages verbatim before applying them to the facts, and her one refusal in this corpus is built specifically on the absence of a plan detail (obscure glazing) rather than a general objection to windows in principle. She writes explicitly about what would prejudice a neighbouring site's own future development potential, not just current occupiers' amenity.

Observable habits

· quotes the relevant UDG or Conservation Area Design Guideline paragraph in full before applying it to the specific proposal

· identifies a missing plan detail (e.g. unconfirmed obscure glazing) as the specific basis for a refusal rather than a general design objection

· considers impact on a neighbouring site's own future development potential as a distinct ground, not folded into amenity

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: confirmation on the submitted plans (not just the application narrative) that any privacy-sensitive glazing is obscure

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether new openings on or near a boundary wall would restrict the adjoining site's own future development

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: how a garden structure's setback and footprint measure against the specific UDG paragraph thresholds for garden buildings

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In their own words

the three additional windows are not shown on the submitted plans to be of obscurely glazed finish. Therefore by its design choice could have significant impacts to the neighbouring amenity

P2023/2099/FUL

As the proposal would be on a boundary wall, the proposed would unduly prejudice the development to the property to the west (no. 116) of the application side.

P2023/2099/FUL

Measured from 74 published Islington 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 74 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

PLAN1Site appraisal, design principles and process
38 times cited
D1
35 times cited
S2Sustainable Design and Construction
30 times cited
S4Minimising greenhouse gas emissions
30 times cited
S1Delivering Sustainable Design
29 times cited
S5Energy Infrastructure
29 times cited
S6Managing heat risk
29 times cited
S7Improving Air Quality
29 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2021–26.[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
P2026/1072/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2026-06-01
P2026/0953/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2026-05-27
P2026/1072/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2026-06-01
P2026/0953/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2026-05-27
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Francesco Zafarana Architect
2. Design Line Huddersfield Ltd-r Sean Brockbank
3. Pelican Architecture & Design-Mr Benedict Baines
4. ADA GROUP
At a glance
OfficerEve Mackintosh
BoroughIslington
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications503 (2021–26)
Approval rate92%
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 Islington planning register and published decision notices, 2021–26. · 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 Islington 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 74 published Islington 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.