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Case officer · Harrow Planning

Akshay Sisodia.

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

A case officer at Harrow with an approval rate of 70% across 310 decided planning applications, spanning 15 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer310 decisions70% approvalSave
Harrow · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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310
Applications
2020–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%72%202167%202268%202393%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate70% · 40th of 72
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 reports30 officer reports parsed
33%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
33%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
27%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
68%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Harrow's average officer

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

Transport & parking
1.92× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.54× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.49× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.32× borough avg
Bulk & massing
0.97× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Sisodia's reports run across a broad mix of application types (from single Certificates of Lawfulness to a car park committee report) and his design-acceptability paragraphs are notable for explicitly weighing symmetry impact on a semi-detached pairing as its own named consideration distinct from general character harm. His larger-scheme reports systematically address a full consultee-by-consultee response log at the close, addressing named individual objections point by point with an 'Officer Response:' label.

Observable habits

· explicitly assesses impact on the symmetry of a semi-detached pairing as a distinct named consideration, separate from general street-scene character harm

· closes larger reports with a structured consultee objection log, each point addressed under an explicit 'Officer Response:' label rather than folded into general prose

· on garden-land principle assessments, calculates the maximum footprint achievable under a fallback permitted-development scenario before judging whether the proposed footprint exceeds it

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a proposed extension disrupts the visual symmetry of a semi-detached pairing, assessed as its own named consideration

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the maximum footprint achievable under a fallback permitted-development calculation before judging whether the actual proposal exceeds it

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: each individual named consultee objection addressed with its own labelled 'Officer Response:' rather than a general summary

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In their own words

The proposal would impact upon the symmetry between No. 20 and 18 Eliot Drive as a semi-detached pairing however the impact of this is not significant enough to result in undue harm

PL/0072/23

The Local Planning Authority have concluded that this property could be considered as having two rear elevations and therefore two 4m deep rear extensions could be achieved

PL/0325/23

Measured from 30 published Harrow 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 30 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3
11 times cited
D11
11 times cited
D12
11 times cited
DM1Achieving a High Standard of Development
11 times cited
DM2Achieving Lifetime Neighbourhoods
11 times cited
DM10On Site Water Management and Surface Water Attenuation
11 times cited
CS1
8 times cited
DM9Managing Flood Risk
8 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–24.[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
PL/0325/24
Full Planning Application
Approved
2024-06-03
PL/0308/24
Full Planning Application
Approved
2024-05-30
PL/0325/24
Full Planning Application
Approved
2024-06-03
PL/0308/24
Full Planning Application
Approved
2024-05-30
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. The Market Design & Build
2. Construct 360 Ltd T/A DontMoveExtend.com
3. Studio 136 Architects Ltd
4. F J Thompson & Co
At a glance
OfficerAkshay Sisodia
BoroughHarrow
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications310 (2020–24)
Approval rate70%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Harrow planning register and published decision notices, 2020–24. · 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 Harrow 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 30 published Harrow 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.