Andrew Pommells.
Last recorded decision Jul 2022 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Ealing with an approval rate of 85% across 321 decided planning applications, spanning 27 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.
Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Ealing reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Pommells' narrative sections show a distinctive volumetric-density habit for major/change-of-use applications: he calculates units-per-hectare and habitable-rooms-per-hectare against the London Plan density matrix ranges explicitly, flagging where a scheme exceeds the suggested range even when he goes on to find it acceptable overall. On smaller schemes affected by loss of permitted development rights (e.g. flats), he states explicitly what area WOULD have been accepted under permitted development as the benchmark against which the actual, larger proposal is then measured.
· calculates units-per-hectare and habitable-rooms-per-hectare against the London Plan density matrix suggested range and states explicitly whether the scheme exceeds it, even where the overall recommendation is favourable
· for sites without permitted development rights (e.g. flats), states the specific area/dimension that WOULD have been acceptable under permitted development as the benchmark for judging the actual proposal
· treats a block's uniform, unaltered architectural consistency as the primary character benchmark, flagging even a modest addition as a harmful precedent where no other building in the row has one
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: an explicit units-per-hectare and habitable-rooms-per-hectare calculation set against the London Plan's suggested density range for the site's PTAL/location type
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the specific dimension/area that would have been permitted development on a comparable dwellinghouse, used as an explicit benchmark even where the site itself has no PD rights
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether any OTHER unit in a uniform block or terrace already has the same feature, treating a genuinely first-of-its-kind addition as setting a harmful precedent
“Units per hectare: 1/ 0.0140 ha (site area) x 2 (number of units) = 142.9 units per hectare (exceeds the suggested requirement being 50-75 u/ha) Habitable rooms per hectare: 1/ 0.0140 ha (site area) x 5 (habitable rooms) = 357.1 habitable rooms per hectare (exceeds the suggested requirement being 150-200 hr/ha)”
201307FUL
“As the application site contains flats, permitted development rights are removed but usually we would accept a 3 m2 porch under permitted development. Unfortunately, the development of the proposed front porch has a larger area of 3.375 m2, primarily due to the depth”
202989FUL
Measured from 139 published Ealing 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 139 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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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.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Ealing planning register and published decision notices, 2020–22. · methodology
- [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]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Ealing decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 139 published Ealing 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.