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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Dominic Duffin.

Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 73% across 95 decided planning applications, spanning 25 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer95 decisions73% approvalSave
Barnet · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
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95
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%40%202079%202178%202258%202378%202483%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate73% · 69th of 85
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 reports21 officer reports parsed
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
29%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
72%
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.

Energy & sustainability
1.94× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.5× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.49× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.45× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.17× borough avg

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

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In their own words

Immediately to the north of the site on the corner of Parson Street and Florence Street is a three-storey mixed use building comprising retail at ground floor and residential flats above which was recently refused by the Council and allowed at appeal by the Planning Inspectorate

21/0048/FUL

We have recently completed a house extension, permission for which was granted in December 2019 by Barnet Council. Therefore, all plans and assessments would need to be amended throughout to take into account the new details of our house

21/0048/FUL

Measured from 21 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 in their own reports — times cited across 21 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS5 rotecting and enhancing Barnet’s character
17 times cited
CS NPPF
16 times cited
CS1 arnet’s place shaping strategy – protection,
13 times cited
DM01Protecting Barnet’s character and amenity Page
13 times cited
DM02Development standards Page
10 times cited
DM17Travel Impact and Parking Standards
9 times cited
CS14Dealing with our waste
6 times cited
DM03Accessibility and inclusive design Page
6 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
22/2520/FUL
Full Application
No determination
2026-06-17
26/0608/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-04-14
22/2520/FUL
Full Application
No determination
2026-06-17
26/0608/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-04-14
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Henry Planning Ltd
2. UPP Architects + Town Planners
3. Hybrid Planning & Development
4. Alan Cox Associates
At a glance
OfficerDominic Duffin
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications95 (2020–26)
Approval rate73%
London approval avg81%
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, 2020–26. · 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 21 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.