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Case officer · Kingston Upon Thames Planning

Jake Powell.

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

A case officer at Kingston Upon Thames with an approval rate of 69% across 321 decided planning applications, spanning 34 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer321 decisions69% approvalSave
Kingston Upon Thames · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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321
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%62%202172%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate69% · 21st of 32
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 reports33 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
58%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
How they reason — coded from their reports

Powell's caseload includes street-furniture/telecoms-hub applications alongside routine householder work, and is distinctive for treating a Secure by Design police-officer consultation response as a decisive gating requirement on street-furniture applications -- refusing where crime-and-disorder mitigation measures (CCTV activation clarity, anti-social-behaviour review protocols) have not been clarified -- and for an energy-consumption analysis comparing a proposed installation's electricity demand against typical UK household consumption as a sustainability metric.

Observable habits

· treats a Secure by Design police consultation response as a decisive gating requirement for street-furniture/public-realm applications, refusing where its specific clarification requests are unmet

· quantifies a proposed installation's energy demand by direct comparison against typical UK household electricity consumption, applied as a distinct sustainability metric

· applies the GPDO's 2020 Coronavirus-regulations dwellinghouse definition update explicitly when assessing HMO change-of-use Certificate of Lawfulness applications

What their reports consistently look for

· whether the Metropolitan Police Secure by Design officer's specific clarification requests (CCTV activation, anti-social-behaviour review) have been addressed

· a proposed installation's electricity consumption compared directly against typical UK household usage as a sustainability benchmark

· whether the 2020 Coronavirus-regulations GPDO dwellinghouse definition update applies to a claimed HMO change of use

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In their own words

On the basis of the information submitted to date, it cannot be concluded that the proposal contains sufficient measures to mitigate crime and antisocial behaviour

22/01127/FUL

The Hub could therefore consume the same amount of electricity as 3 UK households on a daily like for like basis

22/01127/FUL

Measured from 33 published Kingston Upon Thames 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 33 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D3
1 times cited
DM12Development in Conservation Areas and Affecting Heritage Assets
1 times cited
DM10Design Requirements for New Developments (including House Extensions)134
1 times cited
CS14Safer Communities
1 times cited
SI2
1 times cited
DM8Sustainable Transport for New Development
1 times cited
D8
1 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
22/00834/HOU
Householder
No determination
2024-08-14
22/02552/HOU
Householder
Refused
2022-09-23
22/00834/HOU
Householder
No determination
2024-08-14
22/02552/HOU
Householder
Refused
2022-09-23
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Resi
2. Extension Architecture
3. The Market Design and Build
4. Morph Design Studio
At a glance
OfficerJake Powell
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications321 (2020–22)
Approval rate69%
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 Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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 33 published Kingston Upon Thames 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.