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Case officer · Harrow Planning

Lucy Haile.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Harrow with an approval rate of 96% across 157 decided planning applications, spanning 15 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer157 decisions96% approvalSave
Harrow · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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157
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202096%202195%202288%2023100%202496%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate96% · 2nd 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 reports38 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
8%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
97%
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.

Character & heritage
2.54× borough avg
Materials & detailing
2.33× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Haile is Harrow's Listed Building Consent specialist: every report in her corpus concerns internal or external alterations to a listed building, and her reasoning is anchored to whether historic fabric is retained ('the historic door... by relocating it to the new opening') rather than the external planning merits of a scheme. She distinctively separates internal works room-by-room (Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor) each with its own significance conclusion, rather than a single combined heritage statement.

Observable habits

· structures Listed Building Consent reports by physical location within the building (Ground Floor, First Floor, Second Floor, Reception) each with its own retained-fabric conclusion, rather than one combined heritage statement

· explicitly tracks whether specific historic fabric (a door, a wall, timber beams) is retained, relocated, or lost, naming the exact element each time

· for works already undertaken unlawfully, distinguishes which elements 'nevertheless preserve the special interest' from which 'harmed special interest', assessing each element separately for retrospective consent

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a specific named historic element (a door, a wall, a beam) is retained, relocated, or lost as a result of the works, assessed individually

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a discrete significance conclusion for each physical location within the building (ground floor, first floor, second floor) rather than one whole-building statement

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: for retrospective consent, which already-completed elements preserved special interest versus which caused harm requiring reversal

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In their own words

It is also proposed to retain the historic door which does remain within the part of the wall to be removed, by relocating it to the new opening into the new rear extension

PL/0438/23

Some works have already been undertaken unlawfully which nevertheless preserve the special interest of the listed building, whereas others have harmed special interest

PL/1561/25

Measured from 38 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 across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.

In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Harrow yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

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
PL/0823/26
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-05-19
PL/0823/26
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-05-19
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. - Barker Associates (Barker Associates (Essex) Limited)
2. ASK Planning Ltd
3. Rivington Street Studio
4. Orchard Associates
At a glance
OfficerLucy Haile
BoroughHarrow
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications157 (2020–26)
Approval rate96%
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 Harrow 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 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 38 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.