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AtlasCamdenOfficersNeil Mcdonald
Case officer · Camden Planning

Neil McDonald.

Recently active — last recorded decision Mar 2025

A case officer at Camden with an approval rate of 100% across 14 decided planning applications, spanning 10 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer14 decisions100% approvalSave
Camden · 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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14
Applications
2020–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%2020100%2021100%2023100%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate100% · 7th of 76
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 reports

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Neil McDonald's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.

In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Camden yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
2024/2172/L
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2024-05-30
2024/2017/L
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2024-05-20
2024/2172/L
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2024-05-30
2024/2017/L
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2024-05-20
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. PPM Planning Limited
2. PAUL FINEBERG Architect Ltd
3. SM Planning
4. IMAGE Architecture Ltd
At a glance
OfficerNeil McDonald
BoroughCamden
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications14 (2020–25)
Approval rate100%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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How often members depart from officer recommendations, and how those overrides fare at appeal.
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Camden planning register and published decision notices, 2020–25. · 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 Camden decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.