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Case officer · Barnet Planning

Wilf Foster.

Last recorded decision Mar 2022 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Barnet with an approval rate of 82% across 166 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer166 decisions82% 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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166
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%90%202078%202169%2022100%2023100%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate82% · 44th 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 reports31 officer reports parsed
83%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
67%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
36%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
54%
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.

Transport & parking
1.95× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.41× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.33× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.32× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.28× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“the proposed dwellings would have the capacity to function independently from the property at 44-46 Victoria Road and would not depend on it for access”

20/0007/FUL

“the building is not considered to make a positive contribution to the character of the area”

20/0007/FUL

Measured from 31 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 31 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS NPPF
23 times cited
CS1 arnet’s place shaping strategy – protection,
23 times cited
DM01Protecting Barnet’s character and amenity Page
23 times cited
DM02Development standards Page
23 times cited
CS5 rotecting and enhancing Barnet’s character
22 times cited
DM17Travel Impact and Parking Standards
7 times cited
CS9Enlargement of School Facilities CS10 DM
5 times cited
DM04Environmental Considerations for
4 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
19
89%
14
92%
13
92%
11
73%
11
50%
10
100%
10
100%
9
50%
9
100%
9
86%
8
63%
8
88%
7
86%
6
100%
6
80%
5
60%
4
75%
2
100%
2
0%
1
100%
1
100%
1
100%
19
89%
14
92%
13
92%
Show all 22 rows
11
73%
11
50%
10
100%
10
100%
9
50%
9
100%
9
86%
8
63%
8
88%
7
86%
6
100%
6
80%
5
60%
4
75%
2
100%
2
0%
1
100%
1
100%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–22.[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
21/5542/FUL
Full Application
Approved
2024-01-31
22/0266/FUL
Full Application
Approved
2023-01-05
21/5542/FUL
Full Application
Approved
2024-01-31
22/0266/FUL
Full Application
Approved
2023-01-05
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. UPP - Urban Planning Practice
2. ADARA
3. Simon Miller Architects Ltd
4. Henry Planning Ltd
At a glance
OfficerWilf Foster
BoroughBarnet
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications166 (2020–22)
Approval rate82%
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, 2020–22. · 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 31 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.