Mike Walton.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Westminster with an approval rate of 93% across 124 decided planning applications, spanning 6 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 Westminster reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Walton's Mayfair/West End commercial casework tracks a scheme's precise relationship to a chain of prior permissions and conditions on the same site, cross-referencing specific condition numbers and their exact restriction wording (plant operating hours matched precisely to extended trading hours). He is meticulous about updating a delegated report to reflect intervening adoption of new development plan documents (City Plan, London Plan) between committee resolution and decision issue, treating each newly adopted document as requiring a fresh policy compliance check.
· cross-references specific numbered conditions and their exact restriction wording from a chain of prior permissions on the same site (matching plant-hours conditions precisely to newly extended trading hours)
· updates a delegated report to reflect intervening adoption of new development plan documents (a new City Plan, London Plan) between committee resolution and decision issue, checking policy compliance afresh against each
· tracks a site's relationship to a linked S106 obligation on a DIFFERENT site (a land-use swap requiring replacement residential elsewhere before an office scheme can be occupied)
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the exact wording of a specific numbered condition from a prior permission and whether it needs to be varied to match a new proposal
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a new development plan document has been adopted since committee resolution, requiring a fresh policy compliance check
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: an S106 obligation's precise link between two different sites, and whether it has been satisfied before the current scheme can proceed
“The plant and associated equipment shall not operate except between the hours of 08.00 or after 00.30 the following morning on Sunday to Tuesday, and before 08.00 or after 01.30 the following morning on Wednesday and Thursday and before 08.00 or after 02.30 the following morning on Friday and Saturday”
20/00515/FULL
“The Owner shall not Implement the Planning Permission ( at 29-43 Oxford Atreet and 16-19 Soho Square )until planning permission has been granted for two residential units (to replace the lost residential units at the Property) at 98 New Bond Street”
20/03471/FULL
Measured from 90 published Westminster 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 90 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Westminster planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Westminster 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 90 published Westminster 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.