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Case officer · Islington Planning

Harini Boteju.

Last recorded decision Feb 2024 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 91% across 251 decided planning applications, spanning 17 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer251 decisions91% approvalSave
Islington · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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251
Applications
2021–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%90%202291%202395%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate91% · 24th 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 reports210 officer reports parsed
11%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
12%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
15%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
63%
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.

Outlook & amenity
1.73× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
1.72× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.42× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.38× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.37× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Boteju's amenity sections are structured as a named list of affected neighbours, each given its own 'Impact to no. X' sub-paragraph before a closing 'Planning balance' sentence draws the design and amenity strands together. She is comfortable with non-residential/employment-site casework (LSIS canopy, industrial buildings), applying the same neighbour-by-neighbour structure to industrial contexts.

Observable habits

· labels a distinct 'Impact to no. X [street]' sub-paragraph for each individually named neighbouring property

· closes design or amenity sections with a short 'Planning balance' summary sentence tying scale/siting/design together

· applies the same amenity structure to industrial/LSIS sites as to residential ones, referencing DM2.1A(x) for non-residential contexts

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a separate, named assessment of impact for each individually affected neighbouring property

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a closing planning-balance sentence that explicitly weighs scale, siting and design together

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether an unaltered terrace roofline or unprecedented roof extension type is being introduced for the first time on that row

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In their own words

Impact to no. 19 Campdale Road: This property adjoins the south side of the application property and has a single storey lower ground floor infill which extends to the depth of its adjoining outrigger

P2021/3730/FUL

Given the size, scale, siting and design of the infill extension, it would not have a detrimental impact to character and appearance of the building, nor would it have a significant impact to neighbouring amenity

P2021/3730/FUL

Measured from 210 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 210 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3
169 times cited
D4Designing in Context
164 times cited
DM2.1
138 times cited
CS8
135 times cited
D12
111 times cited
HC1
108 times cited
CS9
89 times cited
DM2.3
88 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2021–24.[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
P2023/3546/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2024-04-02
P2024/0015/FUL
Full Planning (Householder)
Approved
2024-03-06
P2023/3546/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2024-04-02
P2024/0015/FUL
Full Planning (Householder)
Approved
2024-03-06
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. @Architect UK Ltd
2. Edwards Rensen Architects Ltd
3. Alistair Lab Architects Ltd
4. Claire Lab Architects Ltd
At a glance
OfficerHarini Boteju
BoroughIslington
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications251 (2021–24)
Approval rate91%
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, 2021–24. · 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 210 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.