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Case officer · Islington Planning

Lucy Morrow.

Recently active — last recorded decision Jul 2025

A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 100% across 60 decided planning applications, spanning 10 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer60 decisions100% approvalSave
Islington · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
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60
Applications
2022–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%2022100%2023100%2024100%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate100% · 1st 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 reports23 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
4%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
95%
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.

Character & heritage
2.83× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.31× borough avg

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

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In their own words

The details are considered of satisfactory quality and are acceptable to discharge the condition.

P2023/1877/AOD

Measured from 23 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 23 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

HC1
20 times cited
DM2.3
11 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–25.[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
P2024/3466/LBC
Listed Building
Approved
2025-09-04
P2024/2871/LBC
Listed Building
Approved
2025-05-16
P2024/3466/LBC
Listed Building
Approved
2025-09-04
P2024/2871/LBC
Listed Building
Approved
2025-05-16
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Studio Becoming -
2. Paul Archer Design Ltd - Ms Yoanne Chan
At a glance
OfficerLucy Morrow
BoroughIslington
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications60 (2022–25)
Approval rate100%
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, 2022–25. · 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 23 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.