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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Joshua Cheng.

Last recorded decision Feb 2023 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 83% across 89 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer89 decisions83% 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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89
Applications
2022–23
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%86%202278%2023
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate83% · 40th 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 reports20 officer reports parsed
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Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
—
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
45%
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.

Daylight & sunlight
1.8× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.94× borough avg
Character & heritage
0.72× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“The proposed extension is single storey and therefore is not assessed against Class A.3.c”

23/0012/192

“The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) 2015 as amended in 2022 by SI 2022 No.”

23/0012/192

Measured from 20 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 20 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS NPPF
9 times cited
CS1 arnet’s place shaping strategy – protection,
9 times cited
CS5 rotecting and enhancing Barnet’s character
9 times cited
DM01Protecting Barnet’s character and amenity Page
9 times cited
DM02Development standards Page
9 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
8
88%
8
100%
7
57%
6
60%
6
67%
6
83%
5
100%
5
80%
5
100%
4
100%
4
100%
4
100%
4
75%
3
67%
3
100%
2
100%
2
50%
2
100%
2
50%
1
0%
1
100%
1
100%
8
88%
8
100%
7
57%
Show all 22 rows
6
60%
6
67%
6
83%
5
100%
5
80%
5
100%
4
100%
4
100%
4
100%
4
75%
3
67%
3
100%
2
100%
2
50%
2
100%
2
50%
1
0%
1
100%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–23.[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
22/3337/FUL
Full Application
Refused
2023-08-23
22/5597/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2023-04-25
22/3337/FUL
Full Application
Refused
2023-08-23
22/5597/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2023-04-25
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. A.J Ferryman & Associates
2. Anglian Home Improvements
3. Steven Gray Design Limited
4. ME Architects
At a glance
OfficerJoshua Cheng
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications89 (2022–23)
Approval rate83%
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, 2022–23. · 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 20 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.