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AtlasHackneyOfficersAlix Hauser
Case officer · Hackney Planning

Alix Hauser.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 83% across 313 decided planning applications, spanning 21 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer313 decisions83% approvalSave
Hackney · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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313
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%83%202082%202188%202274%202367%2024100%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate83% · 17th of 52
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 reports258 officer reports parsed
31%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
9%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
6%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
60%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Hackney's average officer

Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Hackney reports. Attention, not stance.

Transport & parking
1.4× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
1.23× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.23× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.2× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.13× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Hauser's refusals lean heavily on employment-floorspace protection policy in mixed commercial/residential casework, citing the absence of marketing evidence as decisive, and she is willing to flag procedural irregularities (unauthorised works discovered on site, an inadequate heritage statement) as standalone objections in their own right rather than folding them into design.

Observable habits

· treats absence of marketing evidence for employment floorspace loss as a standalone, decisive objection

· calls out a heritage statement's failure to assess specific harms as a procedural deficiency, not just weighing the harm itself

· documents the intensification effect of a use change in concrete terms (potential to double patron numbers) rather than a general amenity statement

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: marketing evidence demonstrating no demand for the existing/former employment use before accepting its loss

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether the submitted heritage statement actually assesses the harm caused by each element of a scheme, not just asserts benefit

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a concrete, quantified account of how intensified a use would become (e.g. potential patron numbers) rather than a general nuisance statement

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In their own words

No marketing evidence has been submitted with the application. As such no details have been provided to justify the loss of employment floorspace that would arise from the proposal.

2020/0029

The heritage statement fails to assess the impact of the proposed works. The further subdivision, creation of new staircases is very invasive and yet the statement fails to assess the harm. Instead it states that these are a benefit and improve the existing structure.

2020/0029

The proposal would result in the entire four storeys of the building being in A4 use (albeit the first floor unlawfully) which would have the potential to double the number of patrons visiting the site on any given day.

2020/0029

Measured from 258 published Hackney 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 258 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

LP1Part A will be applied having regard to the scale and location of the
159 times cited
LP2Development and Amenity
155 times cited
LP53Water and Flooding
134 times cited
LP55Mitigating Climate Change
130 times cited
G6
129 times cited
LP47Biodiversity and Sites of Importance of Nature Conservation
129 times cited
G5
127 times cited
LP46Protection and Enhancement of Green Infrastructure
122 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
2024/1869
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-10-24
2025/2317
Full Planning Permission
2025-10-22
2024/1869
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-10-24
2025/2317
Full Planning Permission
2025-10-22
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. SAM Planning services
2. Firstplan
3. McBains LBS
4. CMA Planning
At a glance
OfficerAlix Hauser
BoroughHackney
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications313 (2020–26)
Approval rate83%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Hackney planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Hackney 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 258 published Hackney 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.