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Case officer · Brent Planning

Will Philps.

A case officer at Brent with an approval rate of 72% across 30 decided planning applications, spanning 8 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer30 decisions72% approval
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30
Applications
2016–e
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average

Not enough dated decisions for a trend yet.

What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate72% · 139th of 230
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 Will Philps'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 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 Brent yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

Decisions by ward
Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
16/1896
Householder
Approved
2016-09-28
16/2643
Householder
Approved
2016-09-28
16/1896
Householder
Approved
2016-09-28
16/2643
Householder
Approved
2016-09-28
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. F D Creasy
2. Des Ager Design and Planning Consultant
3. Kalkwarf Architects
4. Andrew Meshaka Associates
At a glance
OfficerWill Philps
BoroughBrent
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications30 (2016–e )
Approval rate72%
London approval avg79%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Brent planning register and published decision notices, 2016–e . · 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 — Brent's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
  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.