Alastair Douglas.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 92% across 156 decided planning applications, spanning 17 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 Islington reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“Neither Units 10 nor 11 feature windows which would experience an unacceptable loss of outlook from the proposed development given their aspect facing away from the extension.”
P2025/1570/FUL Full Planning Application 5 - 8 St Alban's Place, London, N1 3DQ Erection of 1-storey roof extension containing 1x 2 bed unit
“Due to these respective separation distances and overall modest height of the outbuilding, it would not appear overbearing nor oppressive to neighbouring gardens, nor would it cause any unacceptable overshadowing.”
P2025/3290/FUL & P/2025/3290/FUL Full Planning Application & Listed Building Consent Flat B, 306 Liverpool Road, London, N7 8PU Full Planning Application Erection of new garden room. Removal of redundant drainage pipes,
“This projection is not excessive, and it would not cause an unacceptable loss of outlook to no.”
P2025/3373/FUL Full Planning (Householder) 35 Crane Grove, London, N7 8LD Part reconstruction of existing rear two storey extension
Measured from 27 published Islington 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 27 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025–26.[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 Islington planning register and published decision notices, 2025–26. · 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 Islington 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 27 published Islington 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.