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Case officer · Kensington And Chelsea Planning

Ethan Townsend.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Kensington And Chelsea with an approval rate of 100% across 72 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer72 decisions100% approvalSave
Kensington And Chelsea · 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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72
Applications
2026
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average

Not enough dated decisions for a trend yet.

What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate100% · 2nd of 89
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

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Ethan Townsend's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Ethan Townsend decided — 27 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

CD3Kensington And Chelsea plan
18 times cited
CD4Kensington And Chelsea plan
16 times cited
CD1Kensington And Chelsea plan
13 times cited
CD2Kensington And Chelsea plan
10 times cited
CD10Kensington And Chelsea plan
8 times cited
CD11Kensington And Chelsea plan
8 times cited
GB7Kensington And Chelsea plan
8 times cited
CD9Kensington And Chelsea plan
5 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
16
100%
12
100%
10
100%
Show all 11 rows
7
100%
3
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2026.[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
PP/25/03810
Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-29
PP/25/06335
Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-29
PP/25/03810
Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-29
PP/25/06335
Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-29
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data

No named planning consultants on this officer's decided applications.

At a glance
OfficerEthan Townsend
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications72 (2026)
Approval rate100%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Kensington And Chelsea planning register and published decision notices, 2026. · 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 Kensington And Chelsea 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.