Thomas Frankland Wells.
Last recorded decision Jun 2021 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Kingston Upon Thames with an approval rate of 72% across 400 decided planning applications, spanning 19 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 Kingston Upon Thames reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Frankland Wells handles Kingston's larger commercial, mixed-use, listed-building and major prior-approval schemes, and has the highest approval comfort of the coded high-volume officers (76 approve / 1 refuse of the sampled recommendations). He is distinctive for a heritage-focused Section 66 Listed Buildings Act analysis on listed-building-consent applications, treating preservation of significance as the single overriding consideration, and for working through the GPDO Schedule 2 Class AA additional-storeys criteria table systematically on upward-extension prior-approval applications, name-checking each lettered sub-criterion in turn.
· on listed-building-consent applications, frames the entire assessment around Section 66 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990's duty to have 'special regard to the desirability of preserving' the building or its setting
· on upward-extension (Class AA) prior-approval applications, works through the GPDO Schedule 2 lettered sub-criteria table systematically, addressing each in turn with a Y/N compliance finding
· on larger mixed-use full applications, structures the assessment around a fixed list of headline considerations (principle, sustainable-development presumption, standard of accommodation, character, heritage, transport) stated up front
· whether a listed-building-consent proposal preserves the building's special architectural or historic interest under the Section 66 statutory duty
· clause-by-clause Y/N compliance against the GPDO Schedule 2 Class AA additional-storeys criteria (height limits, plant provision, curtilage)
· the fixed set of headline considerations (principle, accommodation standard, character, heritage, transport) for larger commercial/mixed-use schemes
“Section 66 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (as amended) states that in considering whether to grant planning permission for development which affects a listed building or its setting, the local planning authority shall have special regard to the desirability of preserving the building or its setting”
20/01881/LBC
“The key considerations in the assessment of this application are: The principle of the development; The presumption in favour of sustainable development; The standard of the proposed accommodation; The impact on the character and appearance of the area; The impact on heritage assets; and The impact on the transport network”
20/01880/FUL
Measured from 109 published Kingston Upon Thames 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 in their own reports — times cited across 109 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–21.[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 Kingston Upon Thames planning register and published decision notices, 2020–21. · 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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 109 published Kingston Upon Thames 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.