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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Ismail Ameen.

Last recorded decision Sep 2024 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 88% across 172 decided planning applications, spanning 24 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer172 decisions88% 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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172
Applications
2022–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%93%202385%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate88% · 17th 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 reports136 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
3%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
42%
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.

Privacy & overlooking
1.05× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
0.94× borough avg
Trees & landscape
0.9× borough avg
Materials & detailing
0.84× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
0.74× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Ameen's reports are almost exclusively straightforward householder approvals (rear extensions, garage conversions), and his prose is distinctively terse and formulaic compared to colleagues — consistently working through 'street scene', 'no.X' and 'no.Y' neighbour headings in the same fixed order report after report, rarely departing from that structure even where a scheme has unusual features.

Observable habits

· works through a fixed, repeated report structure (street scene, then each named neighbour in turn) with minimal deviation across reports

· cites the specific gap in metres between an extension and each named neighbouring flank wall as the sole amenity test, rather than a broader qualitative description

· confirms garage-to-habitable-room conversions retain adequate off-street parking as a standalone check before any character assessment

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the precise metre gap between a proposed extension and each individually named neighbouring flank wall

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: confirmation that a garage conversion retains adequate off-street parking on the existing hardstanding before any further assessment

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a proposed extension aligns with or exceeds an established half-width rear projection at the host property

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In their own words

there is a gap of 1.8m between the proposed rear extension and the flank wall of no. 15

23/0247/HSE

there is space available for parking on the existing front hardstanding at the applicant site, and accordingly the proposal would comply with policy DM17

23/0175/HSE

Measured from 136 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 136 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS1 arnet’s place shaping strategy – protection,
74 times cited
CS NPPF
71 times cited
CS5 rotecting and enhancing Barnet’s character
71 times cited
DM01Protecting Barnet’s character and amenity Page
9 times cited
DM02Development standards Page
3 times cited
DM04Environmental Considerations for
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–24.[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
24/2955/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2024-10-03
24/3077/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2024-10-02
24/2955/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2024-10-03
24/3077/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2024-10-02
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. John Rowan & Partners
2. A.J Ferryman & Associates
3. Dimensions Planning
4. Phi Architectural Services Ltd.
At a glance
OfficerIsmail Ameen
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications172 (2022–24)
Approval rate88%
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, 2022–24. · 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 136 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.