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Case officer · Richmond Upon Thames Planning

Harri Mclady.

Active — last recorded decision Nov 2025

A case officer at Richmond Upon Thames with an approval rate of 64% across 63 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer63 decisions64% approvalSave
Richmond Upon Thames · 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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63
Applications
2025
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%64%202567%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate64% · 64th of 67
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 reports64 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
13%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
3%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
45%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Richmond Upon Thames's average officer

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

Bulk & massing
2.5× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.57× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.25× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.08× borough avg
Character & heritage
0.95× borough avg

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

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In their own words

The proposed rear extension, by reason of its proposed depth and footprint, results in an unsympathetic and dominant form of development which adversely impacts on the scale and proportions of the host building and erodes the development pattern of the rear building line of the wider locality.

PA25/0228

it is considered that full width rear dormer windows have become part of the established character of this street and whilst such dormer windows will be contrary to the above SPD as it encourages two smaller dormer windows as opposed to one larger dormer, however, it would be unreasonable and unjustifiable to refuse the proposal

PA25/0957

Measured from 64 published Richmond 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.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 64 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D4Teddington Station
35 times cited
D12Teddington School
35 times cited
GG2
12 times cited
HC1
9 times cited
D6The Causeway, Teddington
2 times cited
D5Queens Road Clinic
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025.[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
PA25/3437
Householder Application
Approved
2026-01-27
PA25/3410
Householder Application
Approved
2026-01-27
PA25/3437
Householder Application
Approved
2026-01-27
PA25/3410
Householder Application
Approved
2026-01-27
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Good Design and Build Ltd
At a glance
OfficerHarri Mclady
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications63 (2025)
Approval rate64%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames planning register and published decision notices, 2025. · 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 — Richmond Upon Thames's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
  4. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 64 published Richmond 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.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.