Development Intent
AtlasEalingOfficersDavid Hung
Case officer · Ealing Planning

David Hung.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Ealing with an approval rate of 92% across 294 decided planning applications, spanning 24 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer294 decisions92% approvalSave
Ealing · 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
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
All investigations →
294
Applications
2023–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%89%202495%202590%2026
Approval-rate trend is subscriber dataSubscribe to see the trend →
What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate92% · 7th of 44
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 reports118 officer reports parsed
14%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
3%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
51%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Ealing's average officer

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

Daylight & sunlight
1.49× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.37× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.36× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.31× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.15× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Hung consistently cites Ealing's DRAFT Local Plan (Regulation 19) policy DAA alongside the adopted London Plan D3/D4 pairing, treating the emerging local plan as an active material consideration even though it is unadopted, and names MULTIPLE specific comparator addresses together with their own planning permission reference numbers as precedent for scale, rather than a single example.

Observable habits

· cites Ealing's emerging/draft Local Plan (Regulation 19) Policy DAA as an active material consideration alongside the adopted London Plan D3/D4 pairing, even while it remains unadopted

· names multiple specific comparator addresses together with their own planning permission reference numbers as direct precedent for scale and design, rather than relying on a single example

· measures extension depth separately along each side boundary (e.g. eastern vs western) where a plot is non-rectangular, rather than quoting one overall depth figure

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether Ealing's draft Local Plan (Regulation 19) Policy DAA reinforces the adopted policy position, cited as an active (if unadopted) material consideration

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: multiple named comparator properties, each WITH its own specific planning permission reference number, rather than a single general claim of similar development nearby

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: separate depth measurements along each boundary of a non-rectangular plot rather than a single averaged figure

Assigned David Hung on a live case?What they pay attention to, how they reason, and what their reports consistently look for — so you can address it before they raise it.Subscribe to unlock →
In their own words

Policy DAA of Ealing's draft Local Plan (Regulation 19) states development should ensure high quality design

240552HH

Several dwellings on Murray Road benefit from similar extensions including no. 37 (Ref: 223544FUL). No. 46 Carlyle Road (Ref: PP/2015/4660) and No. 44 Carlyle Road (Ref: 178752HH)

242631HH

Measured from 118 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.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 118 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D4
56 times cited
D3
52 times cited
D6
45 times cited
D5
32 times cited
D8
14 times cited
D14
9 times cited
T5
8 times cited
D1
7 times cited
Which policies this officer leans on is subscriber intelligenceSubscribe to unlock →
Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2023–26.[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
261218HH
Householder
Approved
2026-06-08
261541HH
Householder
Approved
2026-06-05
261218HH
Householder
Approved
2026-06-08
261541HH
Householder
Approved
2026-06-05
Full application history locked
Subscribe to see all 294 decisions →
Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. PLANS 4 U LTD
2. Resi Design Ltd
3. Chalkline
4. Excel Planning
At a glance
OfficerDavid Hung
BoroughEaling
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications294 (2023–26)
Approval rate92%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
Related investigations
When committees overrule officers like this one →
How often members depart from officer recommendations, and how those overrides fare at appeal.
How much gets decided without a committee →
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 Ealing planning register and published decision notices, 2023–26. · 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 — 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. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 118 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.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.