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Case officer · Ealing Planning

Sean Moulton.

Last recorded decision Jun 2022 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Ealing with an approval rate of 90% across 400 decided planning applications, spanning 26 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer400 decisions90% approvalSave
Ealing · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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400
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%91%202090%202188%2022100%2023100%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate90% · 10th 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 reports125 officer reports parsed
19%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
15%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
10%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
49%
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.

Energy & sustainability
2.3× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.98× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.74× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.66× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.3× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Moulton's reports consistently anchor conclusions in an explicit dated site visit ("a site visit conducted on..."), and he directly quotes the material's compatibility with named conservation area management plans (e.g. the encouragement of timber in Ealing Common CA) rather than relying on abstract design language. He also surfaces mid-process design revisions driven by named colleagues' review comments, visible as tracked-comment artefacts embedded in the reasoning text itself.

Observable habits

· anchors design judgements in an explicit, dated site visit rather than desk-based assessment from drawings alone

· quotes named conservation area management plan documents' specific material preferences (e.g. timber over uPVC) and applies them directly to the proposed materials

· reports come with visible tracked-review-comment artefacts showing a second reviewer's design critique and the case officer's response to it, embedded directly in the reasoning text

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a specific dated site visit underpinning any street-scene or shadowing judgement, rather than relying on drawings alone

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the named conservation area management plan's stated material preference (e.g. timber, not uPVC) applied directly to the specific proposed material

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a design has already been revised once through the application process in response to a named reviewer's comment, and whether the revision resolves the concern

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In their own words

It was noted on a site visit conducted on 31 January 2020 that the existing rear extension is visible from The Common and that this would be of a similar height

200053FUL

Commented [GJ1]: These windows are really poor and don't relate well to the host building. Get this improved. Commented [SM2R1]: Windows have been amended (see Rev E)

200741FUL

Measured from 125 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 125 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D4
48 times cited
GG1
45 times cited
D3
45 times cited
D5
43 times cited
D6
40 times cited
SPD 4
16 times cited
D14
14 times cited
HC3
13 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
220366OPDFUL
OPDC Full Application
Approved
2024-03-28
215324FUL
Full Application
Approved
2023-01-11
220366OPDFUL
OPDC Full Application
Approved
2024-03-28
215324FUL
Full Application
Approved
2023-01-11
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Savills
2. Red and White
3. Resi
4. MZA Planning
At a glance
OfficerSean Moulton
BoroughEaling
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications400 (2020–22)
Approval rate90%
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, 2020–22. · 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 125 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.