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Case officer · Wandsworth Planning

Ben Taylor.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Wandsworth with an approval rate of 97% across 173 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer173 decisions97% approvalSave
Wandsworth · 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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173
Applications
2025–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%96%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate97% · 24th of 68
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 Ben Taylor'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 Ben Taylor decided — 139 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

LP2General Development PrinciplesWandsworth plan
106 times cited
NPPFNPPF
101 times cited
LP1The Design-led ApproachWandsworth plan
97 times cited
LP3Historic EnvironmentWandsworth plan
24 times cited
12NPPF
6 times cited
LP14Air Quality, Pollution and Managing Impacts of DevelopmentWandsworth plan
6 times cited
LP56Tree Management and LandscapingWandsworth plan
4 times cited
LP27Housing StandardsWandsworth plan
4 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025–26.[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
2026/1899
Householder
2026-05
2026/1678
Householder
2026-05
2026/1899
Householder
2026-05
2026/1678
Householder
2026-05
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Resi Design Ltd
2. The Art of Building Ltd
3. M.A. Newsome & Co Ltd
4. Enliven Solutions Limited
At a glance
OfficerBen Taylor
BoroughWandsworth
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications173 (2025–26)
Approval rate97%
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 Wandsworth planning register and published decision notices, 2025–26. · 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 — mean effective conditions attached to Wandsworth 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.