Thomas Broomhall.
Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026
A case officer at Islington with an approval rate of 79% across 14 decided planning applications, spanning 6 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×.
“London Plan policy 7.6 identifies that buildings should not cause unacceptable harm to the amenity of residential buildings in respect of matters including privacy and overshadowing.”
P2020/2232/FUL
“Therefore the proposal fails to demonstrate that the development would contribute to balanced and sustainable communities.”
P2020/2232/FUL
“In the initially submitted application, the covering letter for the proposal states that: ‘the proposed scheme will not have detrimental effect on the local character of the area or cause unacceptable adverse impacts on the local environment and amenity’.”
P2023/1345/FUL · recommendation: Approve with conditions
Measured from 36 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 36 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Islington planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 36 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.