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Case officer · Greenwich Planning

Aaron Lau.

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

A case officer at Greenwich with an approval rate of 72% across 19 decided planning applications, spanning 8 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer19 decisions72% approvalSave
Greenwich · 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
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19
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%78%202167%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate72% · 36th of 57
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 reports

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Aaron Lau's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.

In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Greenwich yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
21/1208/HD
Householders
Approved
2022-05-19
21/4446/F
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-05-13
21/1208/HD
Householders
Approved
2022-05-19
21/4446/F
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-05-13
Full application history locked
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Russell Associates Architect
2. RT Drafting Solutions Limited
3. Rees Architects
4. E F Planning
At a glance
OfficerAaron Lau
BoroughGreenwich
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications19 (2020–22)
Approval rate72%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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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 Greenwich 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 Greenwich decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.