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Case officer · Ealing Planning

Oliver Ramsay.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Ealing with an approval rate of 75% across 79 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer79 decisions75% 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
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79
Applications
2021–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%78%202574%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate75% · 39th 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 reports59 officer reports parsed
27%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
2%
"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 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
1.46× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.46× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.45× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.23× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.16× borough avg

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

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In their own words

Overall, the proposed development would detrimentally harm the amenity of 29 Lyndhurst Road and is therefore considered unacceptable.

261362PALHE · recommendation: Prior approval required and refused.

Measured from 59 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 59 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D4
28 times cited
D3
25 times cited
D6
8 times cited
T4
7 times cited
HC1
7 times cited
D5
6 times cited
H1
6 times cited
T5
6 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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
261406FUL
Full Application
Approved
2026-06-09
261487FUL
Full Application
Approved
2026-06-04
261406FUL
Full Application
Approved
2026-06-09
261487FUL
Full Application
Approved
2026-06-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Bluelime
2. Projection Architects Ltd
3. SAM Planning services
4. AMR Surveyors
At a glance
OfficerOliver Ramsay
BoroughEaling
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications79 (2021–26)
Approval rate75%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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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 Ealing 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 — 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 59 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.