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Case officer · Richmond Upon Thames Planning

Jack Davies.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Richmond Upon Thames with an approval rate of 84% across 579 decided planning applications, spanning 17 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer579 decisions84% 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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579
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%77%202079%202191%202285%202385%202494%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate84% · 21st 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 reports392 officer reports parsed
18%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
4%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
66%
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.

Daylight & sunlight
1.24× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.24× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.2× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
1.04× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.03× borough avg

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

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In their own words

The agent confirmed that the unit is to be 54m2, which meets the minimum standard.

20/0595/FUL

Given that there have been other approved schemes similar to this, with access at the rear (e.g. No. 70 White Hart Lane) there is no objection to the proposed access.

20/0595/FUL

Measured from 392 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 392 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D4Teddington Station
92 times cited
D12Teddington School
71 times cited
HC1
64 times cited
LP 1
24 times cited
LP 8
19 times cited
LP 3
15 times cited
SI 13
9 times cited
LP 45
8 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
PA25/3432
Full Application
Approved
2026-06-03
PA25/1402
Full Application
Approved
2026-04-30
PA25/3432
Full Application
Approved
2026-06-03
PA25/1402
Full Application
Approved
2026-04-30
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Pegasus Group
2. AKART LIMITED MUHAMMET AKDERE
3. de Courcy Town Planning
4. Avis Appleton & Associates
At a glance
OfficerJack Davies
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications579 (2020–26)
Approval rate84%
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 Richmond Upon Thames planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 392 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.