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Case officer · Waltham Forest Planning

Eshan Hussain.

Recently active — last recorded decision Mar 2025

A case officer at Waltham Forest with an approval rate of 74% across 22 decided planning applications, spanning 9 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer22 decisions74% approvalSave
Waltham Forest · 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
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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22
Applications
2020–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%43%2020100%2021100%20220%2023100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate74% · 24th of 49
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 Eshan Hussain'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 this officer cites most across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.

In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Waltham Forest yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.

Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–25.[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
241933
Full Planning
Approved
2026-01-29
201241
Full Planning
Withdrawn
2025-04-28
241933
Full Planning
Approved
2026-01-29
201241
Full Planning
Withdrawn
2025-04-28
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. allen planning ltd
2. GLA Architecture and Design Ltd
3. Altaras Architecture Ltd
4. Fourpoint Architects
At a glance
OfficerEshan Hussain
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications22 (2020–25)
Approval rate74%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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How often members depart from officer recommendations, and how those overrides fare at appeal.
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Waltham Forest planning register and published decision notices, 2020–25. · 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 Waltham Forest 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.