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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Lottie Burden.

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 91% across 90 decided planning applications, spanning 24 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer90 decisions91% approval
Wards shaded by approval rate · click one to open it
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90
Applications
2025–d
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 79%92%202591%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate91% · 17th of 163
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 reports20 officer reports parsed
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
15%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
54%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Barnet's average officer

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

Flooding & drainage
2.95× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.55× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.45× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.16× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.15× borough avg

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

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In their own words

Although the proposed rear dormer is not considered a subordinate feature, due to site specific circumstances it is considered acceptable in terms of character and appearance

26/0204/FUL

the pair of semi-detached properties will create a near matching set and will re-balance the pair

26/0204/FUL

Measured from 20 published Barnet 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 across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.

In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Barnet yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025–d .[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
26/1411/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-08
26/1364/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/1411/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-08
26/1364/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. NewT Design & Build Ltd
2. EA Town Planning Ltd
3. BCS Partnership
4. John Perrin & Sons Ltd
At a glance
OfficerLottie Burden
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications90 (2025–d )
Approval rate91%
London approval avg79%
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 Barnet planning register and published decision notices, 2025–d . · 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 Barnet decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 20 published Barnet 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.