Simon Roberts.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 80% across 24 decided planning applications, spanning 6 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 Islington reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“The proposed development is considered to result in unacceptable impacts on neighbouring residential amenity in terms of daylight and sunlight to neighbouring windows and rooms, and to the neighbouring shared residential amenity space.”
P2024/2471/FUL · recommendation: That planning permission would have been REFUSED for the reasons listed below had the application not been appealed:
“Insufficient detail has been provided of how the development will meet the GLA's `Be Seen' requirements.”
P2024/2471/FUL · recommendation: That planning permission would have been REFUSED for the reasons listed below had the application not been appealed:
Measured from 31 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.
The policies this officer cites most across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.
In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Islington yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.
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 Islington 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 — 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]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 31 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.