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AtlasRedbridgeOfficersX Thomas Russell
Case officer · Redbridge Planning

X Thomas Russell.

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

A case officer at Redbridge with an approval rate of 73% across 467 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer467 decisions73% approvalSave
Redbridge · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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467
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%65%202077%202186%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate73% · 20th 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 reports44 officer reports parsed
9%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
3%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
7%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
87%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Redbridge's average officer

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

Daylight & sunlight
1.72× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.71× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.64× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.58× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.27× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Russell recites the Housing Design SPD's specific numeric standards for the relevant extension type (side, rear, dormer) as a preamble before applying them to the proposal at hand, and on refusal quotes the specific number by which the scheme falls short of each threshold in turn.

Observable habits

· states the Housing Design SPD's specific numeric standard for the relevant extension type as a preamble before applying it to the facts of the case

· on refusal, states each threshold breached in turn along with the specific figure that fails to comply

· distinguishes 'front and rear dormers' guidance from 'side extension' guidance explicitly before assessing a mixed scheme

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the specific Housing Design SPD numeric standard for the relevant extension type stated before it is applied

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: each individual threshold breach quantified by its own figure rather than a general non-compliance finding

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a condition on a previous permission has removed permitted development rights before assessing a certificate of lawfulness

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In their own words

the Council's adopted Housing Design SPD (2019) states that, in regard to two-storey side extensions, the width of the proposed development should be no more than half the width of the host property. In addition, two-storey side extensions should be appropriately set-down 0.5 metres from the main ridge of the property, and set-back 0.5 metres from the front elevation

0893/20

Condition 3 of application 2343/12 states the following: No extensions, including those permitted by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Statutory Instrument revoking, re-enacting or amending that Order), shall be carried out on the property the subject of this permission without the grant of further specific permission from the Local Planning Authority. Permitted Development rights for the application site (2, Becket Close) have therefore been removed

1590/20

Measured from 44 published Redbridge 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 44 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

LP26and LP27). This will enable a large
30 times cited
LP30Household Extensions
20 times cited
D12
8 times cited
D3
7 times cited
LP29Amenity and Internal Space Standards
6 times cited
LP38Protecting Trees and Enhancing the Landscape
6 times cited
LP33Heritage
5 times cited
LP2Delivering Housing Growth
5 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
0933/22
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-05-27
0792/22
Householder
Approved
2022-05-27
0933/22
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-05-27
0792/22
Householder
Approved
2022-05-27
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. ZAAVIA DESIGN LTD
2. SMART SKILLS LTD
3. Tugby and Tugby Surveyors Ltd
4. Rahul Taheem LTD
At a glance
OfficerX Thomas Russell
BoroughRedbridge
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications467 (2020–22)
Approval rate73%
London approval avg81%
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Redbridge 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 Redbridge 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 44 published Redbridge 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.