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Case officer · Tower Hamlets Planning

Emma Klein.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Tower Hamlets with an approval rate of 55% across 17 decided planning applications, spanning 6 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer17 decisions55% approvalSave
Tower Hamlets · 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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17
Applications
2025–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average

Not enough dated decisions for a trend yet.

What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate55% · 71st of 76
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 reports

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Emma Klein's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Emma Klein decided — 11 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

D4London Plan
4 times cited
HC1London Plan
4 times cited
S.DH3Heritage and the historic environmentTower Hamlets plan
4 times cited
D.ES9Noise and vibrationTower Hamlets plan
2 times cited
D14London Plan
1 times cited
H7SPD / guidance
1 times cited
7.15Superseded
1 times cited
D.DH8AmenityTower Hamlets plan
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025–26.[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
PA/26/00634/NC
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-28
PA/26/00454/NC
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-27
PA/26/00634/NC
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-28
PA/26/00454/NC
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-05-27
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Podium Surveying LLP
2. M D Bithrey Surveyors Ltd
3. Studio Four Architects
4. Studio Carnot Ltd
At a glance
OfficerEmma Klein
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications17 (2025–26)
Approval rate55%
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 Tower Hamlets planning register and published decision notices, 2025–26. · 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 Tower Hamlets decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.