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AtlasHackneyOfficersJessica Neeve
Case officer · Hackney Planning

Jessica Neeve.

Last recorded decision Mar 2024 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 85% across 120 decided planning applications, spanning 20 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer120 decisions85% approvalSave
Hackney · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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120
Applications
2022–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%89%202375%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate85% · 14th 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 reports116 officer reports parsed
25%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
16%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
1%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
55%
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.

Character & heritage
1.21× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.17× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.13× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.1× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.05× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Neeve's conservation-area refusals note the historical rarity of extensions along a specific street (checking Council records for how many have ever been granted), and her design sections repeatedly flag when proposed fenestration doesn't align with upper-floor window positions, treating misalignment as a distinct objection.

Observable habits

· checks Council records for how many extensions have EVER been granted on a specific street as a rarity/precedent test

· flags vertical misalignment between proposed and existing upper-floor fenestration as a distinct, named design objection

· cites multiple named comparator applications with their own references for extension-depth acceptability

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a Council-records check of how many extensions have ever been granted on the specific street in question

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether new ground-floor openings align vertically with the fenestration pattern on upper floors

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: several named comparator applications, by reference, for the depth of a proposed extension

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In their own words

in accordance with the council's records only one application has ever been granted for an extension along Dorset Court. This application was granted in 2005 under the previous Local Plan, and to the best of the council's knowledge this extension was not built.

2022/1498

The size and placement of the proposed door and windows do not align with those on the upper floors creating a visible imbalance between the levels.

2022/1498

Extensions of similar scales have been approved along the terrace at nos. 111(2021/1449), 141 (2018/2130), and 127 (2014/3586) Clifden Road.

2023/0204

Measured from 116 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 116 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3Allocation: Mixed-use including residential
61 times cited
LP17Housing Design
49 times cited
LP1Part A will be applied having regard to the scale and location of the
40 times cited
LP3Designated Heritage Assets
39 times cited
D6Allocation: Retail/market uses
36 times cited
G1
31 times cited
G6
31 times cited
SI 5
31 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–24.[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
2024/0430
Householder Planning
Approved
2024-05-03
2024/0507
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2024-05-03
2024/0430
Householder Planning
Approved
2024-05-03
2024/0507
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2024-05-03
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Resi
2. SAM Planning services
3. Stace LLP
4. Eade Planning Ltd
At a glance
OfficerJessica Neeve
BoroughHackney
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications120 (2022–24)
Approval rate85%
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, 2022–24. · 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 116 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.