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Case officer · Islington Planning

Daniel Jeffries.

Last recorded decision Oct 2022 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 74% across 293 decided planning applications, spanning 17 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer293 decisions74% approvalSave
Islington · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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293
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%68%202072%202179%2022100%2023
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate74% · 50th of 55
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 reports117 officer reports parsed
20%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
9%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
85%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Islington's average officer

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

Precedent & consistency
2.03× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.67× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.47× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.15× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.1× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Jeffries' reports open almost every listed-building case by citing the specific statutory sections (16(2), 66(1), 72(1) of the 1990 Act) before any design assessment, and he works through internal alterations floor-by-floor when a listed interior is involved. He also tracks recent planning/appeal history closely, setting a current proposal directly against the reasons for refusal or appeal findings on the same site.

Observable habits

· opens conservation-area/listed-building reports with the specific Act sections engaged (16(2), 66(1), 72(1)) before discussing design

· assesses internal listed-building works level-by-level (lower ground, upper ground, first floor) as separate labelled sections

· cross-references a site's own recent refusal or appeal decision paragraph-by-paragraph when a resubmission follows it

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a floor-by-floor account of which historic fabric is retained, repaired, or lost in a listed building

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: direct comparison to the specific reasons for refusal or Inspector's findings on any prior application for the same site

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: confirmation from Building Control/HSE on fire safety materials before internal listed-building works are accepted

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In their own words

in accordance with Section 72, 16 and 66 of Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, the proposal is required to preserve the visual appearance and historic character of the heritage assets

P2020/3452/FUL & P2020/3494/LBC

One of the reasons for refusal of application Ref P2021/1942/FUL was in relation to the design of the dormer and roof terrace, due its their inappropriate scale, detailed design, materials, bulk, siting and appearance would form a dominant and discordant addition

P2021/3075/FUL

Measured from 117 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.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 117 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

CS8
90 times cited
CS9
79 times cited
D4Designing in Context
20 times cited
D1
19 times cited
HC1
19 times cited
D12
11 times cited
CS10
11 times cited
CS11
11 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–22.[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
P2021/0302/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2023-09-19
P2021/2502/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2023-05-25
P2021/0302/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2023-09-19
P2021/2502/FUL
Full Planning Application
Approved
2023-05-25
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Rolfe Judd Planning
2. Mr Matthew Sobic - Savills (UK) Limited
3. DP9 Ltd
4. Scenario Architecture, Mr & Mrs M. Scenario
At a glance
OfficerDaniel Jeffries
BoroughIslington
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications293 (2020–22)
Approval rate74%
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 Islington planning register and published decision notices, 2020–22. · 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 Islington 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 117 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.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.