Liam McFadden.
A case officer at Brent with an approval rate of 66% across 460 decided planning applications, spanning 19 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 Brent reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
McFadden's reports on HMOs and multi-unit conversions set out room-by-room floor areas against the Technical Housing Standards and flag when combined bathroom/kitchenette facilities tip a unit from a genuine HMO bedroom into an effectively self-contained flat requiring full London Plan space standards. Flat-by-flat GIA and amenity-space tables are used for larger schemes.
· flags when a room's combined kitchenette and ensuite facilities mean it should be assessed as a self-contained flat rather than an HMO bedroom
· sets out flat-by-flat GIA and private/communal amenity space in a labelled table for multi-unit schemes
· checks air quality assessment currency (e.g. flags an assessment as several years out of date) before accepting it as sufficient evidence
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a room's kitchenette and ensuite combination effectively makes it a self-contained flat rather than a genuine HMO bedroom
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a flat-by-flat table of GIA and amenity space against the applicable minimum for larger schemes
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a submitted air quality or similar technical assessment is still current, not several years out of date
“As these units would contain both bathroom and cooking facilities they would effectively be self-contained units. As such the London Plan Space standards are considered to apply and none of these units would meet the minimum space standards required for a 1 or 2 person studio flat (37sqm) and would be unacceptable.”
20/0030
“They note that the assessment is dated 2017 and as such is 3 years out of date. It is considered that this information is insufficient to demonstrate that the current proposal would have an acceptable impact on local air quality”
20/0030
Measured from 260 published Brent 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 260 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2015–d .[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 Brent planning register and published decision notices, 2015–d . · 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 — Brent's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 260 published Brent 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.