Gideon Whittingham.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Enfield with an approval rate of 94% across 319 decided planning applications, spanning 28 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 Enfield reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“The lawful use of the site, as a car park (272 spaces) has been confirmed by way of a Certificate of Lawfulness (Ref: 15/00037/CEU) due to the continuous ten year period prior to the date of the application. Much of this evidence base stems from the planning permission in 1962 (Ref: 11/0528) which granted a car park”
20/02127/FUL
“Proposals for the loss of existing facilities will only be permitted if either of the two criteria of the policy are met; a suitable replacement facility is provided that maintains the same levels of public provisions and accessibility, or, evidence to demonstrate that there is not demand for the existing use or any alternative”
20/03575/LBEPRE
Measured from 109 published Enfield 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 109 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–26.[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 Enfield planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Enfield 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 109 published Enfield 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.