Catherine Holness.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 88% across 225 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×.
“The closest habitable window would be 2.50m away to the north side and it is not thought from this angle that the impacts would be unacceptable.”
P2024/3654/FUL · recommendation: Approve with Conditions
“Policy DH5 of the local plan states that All development proposals which have the potential to cause or exacerbate unacceptable noise and vibration impacts on land uses and occupiers in the locality must fully assess such impacts, with reference to relevant noise thresholds set out in Appendix 2.”
P2025/1246/FUL Full Planning (Householder) Flat C, 72 Hanley Road, London, N4 3DR Extension of existing second floor roof terrace with frosted glass balustrade to sides
“The proposal would result in less than substantial harm to the character and appearance of the CA and there would be no public benefit to outweigh this harm.”
P2025/2941/FUL Full Planning (Householder) 30 Pyrland Road, London, N5 2JD Proposed mansard roof extension with rooflights
Measured from 24 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 24 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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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.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Islington planning register and published decision notices, 2022–26. · 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 24 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.