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Case officer · Tower Hamlets Planning

Gareth Owens.

Last recorded decision Mar 2023 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Tower Hamlets with an approval rate of 76% across 230 decided planning applications, spanning 13 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer230 decisions76% 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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230
Applications
2020–23
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%58%202076%202185%202262%2023
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate76% · 52nd 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 Gareth Owens'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 Gareth Owens decided — 141 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

D.DH2Attractive streets, spaces and public realmTower Hamlets plan
42 times cited
S.DH3Heritage and the historic environmentTower Hamlets plan
29 times cited
D4London Plan
14 times cited
D.DH8AmenityTower Hamlets plan
14 times cited
HC1London Plan
12 times cited
D.ES9Noise and vibrationTower Hamlets plan
9 times cited
DH1SPD / guidance
8 times cited
7.6Superseded
4 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–23.[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/22/01672/R
Full Planning Permission
No determination
2024-04-25
PA/22/02570/NC
Full Planning Permission
Refused
2023-05-10
PA/22/01672/R
Full Planning Permission
No determination
2024-04-25
PA/22/02570/NC
Full Planning Permission
Refused
2023-05-10
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Walsingham Planning Ltd
2. Savills
3. Firstplan Ltd
4. BBpartnership
At a glance
OfficerGareth Owens
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications230 (2020–23)
Approval rate76%
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, 2020–23. · 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.