Britney Ford.
Active — last recorded decision Mar 2026
A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 85% across 260 decided planning applications, spanning 21 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 Hackney reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Ford's corpus (heavily 2023-24) shows a distinctly modern policy vocabulary — Local Plan LP-codes and biodiversity net gain transition dates feature routinely, and she is precise about which applications predate the mandatory BNG regime rather than applying it retrospectively. Her employment-loss cases cite named marketing agents and specific report dates rather than a general statement that marketing evidence was submitted.
· checks and states explicitly whether an application predates the mandatory BNG requirement (Feb 2024) rather than assuming it applies
· names the specific marketing agent and report date behind an employment-loss marketing evidence submission
· breaks down S106/CIL contribution figures unit-by-unit rather than giving only a scheme total
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether an application was submitted before or after the BNG mandatory date, determining if the statutory regime applies at all
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a named marketing agent and dated report as evidence of no demand for retained employment floorspace
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a unit-by-unit breakdown of financial contributions rather than a single scheme-wide total
“As the application was submitted in 2023, prior to the commencement of the mandatory BNG requirements in February 2024, it is not subject to the statutory BNG provisions.”
2023/1240
“A marketing report prepared by Strettons (May 2019) has been submitted in support of the application. This report provides a detailed assessment of market demand and rental prospects for commercial accommodation in this location.”
2023/1240
“2 x Flats at �1,000 each = �2,000 3 x Duplexes at �1,500 each = �4,500 The total carbon offset contribution of �6,500 will be secured through a Section 106 agreement”
2023/1240
Measured from 187 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 187 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2023–26.[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 Hackney planning register and published decision notices, 2023–26. · 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 Hackney 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 187 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.