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Case officer · Ealing Planning

Patrick Franklin.

Recently active — last recorded decision Jan 2025

A case officer at Ealing with an approval rate of 77% across 221 decided planning applications, spanning 26 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer221 decisions77% 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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221
Applications
2020–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%0%202278%202376%202492%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate77% · 33rd 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 reports62 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
2%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
43%
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.

Materials & detailing
1.31× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.15× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
0.82× borough avg
Character & heritage
0.55× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.44× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“Family Housing is described in the Glossary of the London Plan as `A dwelling that by virtue of its size, layout and design is suitable for a family to live in and generally has three, four, five, or more bedrooms.'”

230579FUL

“submitted plans indicate that the proposed addition would pass the 45-degree test when measured from the adjacent habitable room window, in accordance with the BRE guidelines”

230579FUL

Measured from 62 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 62 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3
47 times cited
D4
47 times cited
D5
47 times cited
D6
46 times cited
SP1
34 times cited
E1
32 times cited
HC1
14 times cited
D14
12 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
22
82%
18
94%
17
47%
17
64%
13
83%
11
73%
11
80%
10
67%
10
100%
10
86%
9
56%
8
71%
8
86%
7
100%
7
86%
6
80%
6
83%
6
100%
6
100%
5
80%
3
100%
3
33%
3
67%
3
33%
1
0%
1
100%
22
82%
18
94%
17
47%
Show all 26 rows
17
64%
13
83%
11
73%
11
80%
10
67%
10
100%
10
86%
9
56%
8
71%
8
86%
7
100%
7
86%
6
80%
6
83%
6
100%
6
100%
5
80%
3
100%
3
33%
3
67%
3
33%
1
0%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–25.[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
240187OPDFUL
OPDC Full Application
Approved
2025-07-14
234563FUL
Full Application
Approved
2025-06-11
240187OPDFUL
OPDC Full Application
Approved
2025-07-14
234563FUL
Full Application
Approved
2025-06-11
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Faluck Raman Patel
2. Zebra Architects Ltd
3. The Moore Project
4. AH Architecture
At a glance
OfficerPatrick Franklin
BoroughEaling
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications221 (2020–25)
Approval rate77%
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 Ealing 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 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 62 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.