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Case officer · Brent Planning

Gary Murphy.

Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026

A case officer at Brent with an approval rate of 88% across 26 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer26 decisions88% approvalSave
Brent · 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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26
Applications
2021–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%75%2023100%202480%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate88% · 5th of 43
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 reports33 officer reports parsed
17%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
10%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
21%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
61%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Brent's average officer

Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Brent reports. Attention, not stance.

Daylight & sunlight
2.3× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.83× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.8× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.5× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.13× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“As part of the previous application (ref: 22/1796) at this site (proposing the same number of dwellings) the FVA provided at that time was independently reviewed on behalf on the Local Planning Authority by BPS who provided a report in July 2022 concluding this earlier proposal was in a small financial deficit”

23/0548

“This overcomes in part previous refusal reason (2).”

23/0548

Measured from 33 published Brent 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 33 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D12a
18 times cited
DMP1DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT GENERAL
16 times cited
BD1Leading the Way in Good Urban Design
15 times cited
BH13New dwellings external private amenity space requirement
5 times cited
BSUI4ON-SITE WATER MANAGEMENT AND
4 times cited
BT2PARKING AND CAR FREE DEVELOPMENT WHICH ARE
3 times cited
BT4FORMING AN ACCESS ON TO A ROAD
3 times cited
BGI1GREEN AND BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRENT
2 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
6
100%
5
80%
3
100%
3
100%
2
100%
2
50%
1
100%
1
100%
1
–
1
100%
1
–
6
100%
5
80%
3
100%
Show all 11 rows
3
100%
2
100%
2
50%
1
100%
1
100%
1
–
1
100%
1
–

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2021–26.[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
26/0967
Full Planning Permission
—
2026-04-17
25/3300
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-02-04
26/0967
Full Planning Permission
—
2026-04-17
25/3300
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-02-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. ROK Planning
2. QUOD
3. Planning Insight Ltd
4. DP9 Ltd
At a glance
OfficerGary Murphy
BoroughBrent
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications26 (2021–26)
Approval rate88%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Brent planning register and published decision notices, 2021–26. · 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 — Brent's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
  4. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 33 published Brent 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.