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Case officer · Brent Planning

Toby Huntingford.

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

A case officer at Brent with an approval rate of 75% across 37 decided planning applications, spanning 14 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer37 decisions75% 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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37
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202065%202190%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate75% · 18th 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 reports36 officer reports parsed
12%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
23%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
8%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
84%
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.

Flooding & drainage
2.1× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.61× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.55× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.39× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.32× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“Good Growth policy GG2 seeks to make the best use of land, requiring planners to proactively explore the potential to make the best use of land, particularly in sustainable locations.”

20/4150

“a condition will apply to the consent that imposes a temporary usage requirement on the B1 use; this would act as a safeguard in the event that redevelopment of the site does not occur within the next few years.”

20/2098

Measured from 36 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 36 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DMP1DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT GENERAL
14 times cited
BT2PARKING AND CAR FREE DEVELOPMENT WHICH ARE
8 times cited
D6Housing Quality and Standards
6 times cited
T5Cycling
6 times cited
CP 17
5 times cited
DMP 1
4 times cited
CP20
4 times cited
T6Car parking
4 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
8
88%
4
67%
3
100%
3
100%
3
33%
3
67%
2
100%
2
100%
2
0%
2
50%
2
100%
1
100%
1
100%
1
100%
8
88%
4
67%
3
100%
Show all 14 rows
3
100%
3
33%
3
67%
2
100%
2
100%
2
0%
2
50%
2
100%
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
22/2228
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-09-29
22/0587
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-06-28
22/2228
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-09-29
22/0587
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-06-28
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. RPS
2. QUOD
3. C14 Designs
4. KDB BUILDING DESIGNS LTD
At a glance
OfficerToby Huntingford
BoroughBrent
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications37 (2020–22)
Approval rate75%
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 Brent 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 — 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 36 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.