Kathryn McAllister.
Last recorded decision Aug 2024 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Barking And Dagenham with an approval rate of 56% across 376 decided planning applications, spanning 21 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 Barking And Dagenham reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
McAllister has the borough's highest volume of explicit approve/refuse full-application decisions (41 approve / 30 refuse of 325 reports), spanning householder extensions, HMO conversions and new infill dwellings, and her refusals concentrate on schemes she describes in unusually direct evaluative language — 'excessive, overbearing and incongruous' — rather than the more measured, qualified phrasing common elsewhere in the borough's corpus. On HMO conversions specifically, she treats the loss-of-family-housing principle and the technical space-standards compliance (storage provision, individual bedroom minimums) as SEPARATE, both-must-pass tests, refusing on storage/bedroom-standard failure even where the overall gross internal area complies. She is also willing to refuse a scheme on transport/parking grounds ALONE where a low-PTAL location's off-street parking provision falls short, treating this as a standalone reason for refusal rather than a secondary consideration.
· uses direct evaluative language for design refusals ('excessive, overbearing and incongruous') rather than the more qualified, hedged phrasing common among peers
· on HMO conversions, treats compliance with individual bedroom-area and storage minimums as a SEPARATE pass/fail test from the overall gross-internal-area figure, refusing on the narrower failure even where the aggregate area complies
· is willing to refuse on transport/parking provision ALONE in low-PTAL locations, framing inadequate off-street parking as a standalone reason for refusal rather than a factor to be weighed against other acceptable elements
· whether each individual bedroom and the storage provision in an HMO conversion meets the technical housing standards, independent of whether the aggregate gross internal area complies
· whether a proposal's scale, siting or design would be 'unduly prominent' or 'out of character' with the terrace/street scene, assessed against BP8/BP11
· whether off-street parking provision matches the PTAL-banded standard in Table 10.3 of the Draft London Plan, treated as capable of founding a refusal on its own
“the proposed part single/part two-storey side extension is considered excessive, overbearing and incongruous and would not be in keeping with the character of the existing property”
20/00007/FUL
“officers consider the proposed development unacceptable as it fails to provide adequate off-street parking facilities detrimental to the character and apperance of the area”
20/00062/FUL
Measured from 325 published Barking And Dagenham 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 325 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–24.[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 Barking And Dagenham planning register and published decision notices, 2020–24. · 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 Barking And Dagenham 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 325 published Barking And Dagenham 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.