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AtlasHackneyOfficersZarreen Hadadi
Case officer · Hackney Planning

Zarreen Hadadi.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Hackney with an approval rate of 90% across 188 decided planning applications, spanning 21 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer188 decisions90% approvalSave
Hackney · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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188
Applications
2022–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202488%202593%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate90% · 9th 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 reports159 officer reports parsed
22%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
11%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
5%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
50%
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
1.58× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.34× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.23× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.1× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
0.97× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Hadadi's design assessments habitually name two or more specific precedent applications by reference number for a proposed extension type, and she is explicit when an appeal decision on a neighbouring site (rather than just an officer approval) is the operative precedent she is following.

Observable habits

· names two or more specific comparator applications by reference number in the same sentence as the design conclusion

· distinguishes an appeal-allowed precedent from an officer-approved one and treats the former as the more binding comparator

· checks HMO-to-single-dwelling conversions against the permitted-development fallback position, not just full planning policy

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: two or more named comparator applications, by reference number, for the same type of extension

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether the operative precedent was decided by an Inspector at appeal rather than just approved by an officer

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the permitted-development fallback position for HMO/C4 conversions, not only the full-planning-permission policy tests

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In their own words

It is in keeping with several other properties within the terrace with recent similar scale extensions including No. 83 Olinda Road (2021/3502), No.85 (2021/2347) and No. 87 Olinda Road (2022/2827).

2024/2448

Furthermore, a similar extension at No. 13 (2019/1152) was allowed at appeal.

2024/2516

given that the site at 145 Mount Pleasant has Permitted Development rights, the current proposal would need to be considered to meet the terms below as a realistic fallback option.

2024/2639

Measured from 159 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 159 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

LP2Development and Amenity
60 times cited
D3Allocation: Mixed-use including residential
57 times cited
LP1Part A will be applied having regard to the scale and location of the
56 times cited
LP55Mitigating Climate Change
52 times cited
LP17Housing Design
50 times cited
LP54Overheating and Adapting to Climate Change
46 times cited
D6Allocation: Retail/market uses
42 times cited
G6
42 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–26.[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
2026/0752
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-06-03
2026/0283
Listed Building Consent
Withdrawn
2026-05-28
2026/0752
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-06-03
2026/0283
Listed Building Consent
Withdrawn
2026-05-28
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Eade Planning Ltd
2. SAM Planning services
3. Resi Design Ltd
4. Blakeney Leigh
At a glance
OfficerZarreen Hadadi
BoroughHackney
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications188 (2022–26)
Approval rate90%
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, 2022–26. · 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 159 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.