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🕵️ Case Officer Intelligence

Go beyond authority-level data. Understand individual case officer behaviour — approval rates, decision speed, refusal patterns, and what they focus on. Intelligence your competitors don't have.

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⚠️ Data limitations on this profile. Only 9 decisions on record for this officer at Durham — not enough to draw firm conclusions. Take any stats below as indicative only. Of 9 decisions, 8 (89%) have outcomes that couldn't be cleanly classified as approved or refused (e.g. "decided", "advice given", non-material amendments). The approval rate below is calculated from only the 1 clearly approved/refused decisions.

Known data gaps: our Idox scrape covers Gateshead, Sunderland, and Northumberland from late 2023 onwards. Newcastle Upon Tyne data is NOT in our corpus (the council's planning portal blocks IONOS shared-hosting IPs). If you're looking for a Newcastle case officer, their decisions won't appear here even if the officer name matches.

🕵️ Sophie White · Durham

Total Decisions

Approval Rate

25 days

Avg. Decision Time

Refusals

Aug 2026

Earliest Decision

Oct 2026

Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type	Total	Approved	Refused	Other	Approval Rate
Unknown	9	0	1	8	0%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

Under 4 weeks

4–8 weeks

8–13 weeks

13–26 weeks

Over 26 weeks

🚫 Refusal Details (1 refusals)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision Date	Similar precedents
DM/26/01953/VOC	8 Church Mews Winston Darlington DL2 3RL	—	23 Sep 2026	Find similar →

📋 Decision History (9 most recent)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision	Date	Days
DM/26/02403/TCA	The Oak, Grainge Wood And Plot 1 At Former School Site Eggleston Barnard Castle DL12 0AL	—	Raise no objection	12 Oct 2026	33
DM/26/02453/TCA	4 Durham Road Brancepeth Durham DH7 8DQ	—	Raise no objection	12 Oct 2026	27
DM/26/02577/TCA	Land South Of Staindrop Hall Front Street Staindrop DL2 3NH	—	Raise no objection	12 Oct 2026	18
DM/26/02361/TCA	West End Barningham Richmond DL11 7DU	—	Raise no objection	29 Sep 2026	22
DM/26/02549/TCA	Dunholme 30 South Green Staindrop Darlington DL2 3LD	—	Withdrawn	29 Sep 2026	7
DM/26/02346/TCA	Devonshire House Nursing Home 10 - 11 Front Street West Auckland Bishop Auckland DL14 9HW	—	Raise no objection	28 Sep 2026	24
DM/26/01953/VOC	8 Church Mews Winston Darlington DL2 3RL	—	Refused	23 Sep 2026	57
DM/26/01867/TCA	Land To The South Of Berriman Cottage Cotherstone DL12 9QW	—	Raise objection	17 Aug 2026	28
DM/26/02037/TCA	British Telecom Telephone Exchange Croft View Cotherstone Barnard Castle DL12 9PD	—	Raise no objection	17 Aug 2026	13

🧠 Strategy Insight

This officer has a below-average approval rate (0%). They apply strict scrutiny. Consider pre-application engagement and ensure every potential objection is addressed in your planning statement. Review their refusal history above for patterns.

What Makes This Different

📊 Officer Approval Rates

See each officer's personal approval rate, not just the authority average. Know whether your officer approves 95% or 65% of applications.

PlanningCore Exclusive

⏱️ Decision Speed Profile

Average days to decision per officer. Know if your officer is fast (under 8 weeks) or chronically slow — and plan your timeline accordingly.

Officer-level granularity

🚫 Refusal Pattern Analysis

What does this officer refuse on most? Design? Highways? Amenity? Heritage? Know their focus areas and address them proactively.

Deep refusal analytics

⚖️ Appeal Overturn Rate

How often are this officer's refusals overturned on appeal? A high overturn rate suggests the officer is too strict — useful for your appeal strategy.

Appeal data linked to officers

🏛️ Committee vs Delegated Split

Does this officer usually decide under delegated powers, or do their cases end up at committee? Different preparation needed for each route.

Committee/delegated tracking

🧠 Strategic Advice

Based on the officer's patterns, get tailored advice: what to emphasise in your planning statement, what issues to pre-empt, and how to frame your scheme.

AI-powered strategy layer

📡 Data Pipeline

Officer intelligence is generated from planning application decision data. As more authorities are ingested into PlanningCore, officer profiles become richer and more accurate.

📊 Data sources & freshness

planning_applications.case_officer (updated Daily ingest)
Live ingest from LPA portals (Idox + Civica + Northgate). Coverage varies by council — leading LPAs publish on every record, others publish only on committee reports.
Approval rate calculation
approvals / (approvals + refusals) per officer. Withdrawn and pending applications are excluded.
Date window
Stats reflect the entire decision history for the officer, not a rolling window. Recent volume changes can shift the averages.

About this tool: Case Officer Intelligence

Individual case officer profiling — approval rates, decision speed, refusal patterns, appeal overturn rates, and tailored submission strategy advice.

When to use it

Use when you know which officer is assigned to your case, or to research officer behaviour in an authority before submitting. Deep officer behaviour analytics exclusive to PlanningCore.

Policy and guidance it draws on

Data-driven analysis of individual officer decision patterns

Part of Authority Intelligence

Use these tools to understand how your Local Planning Authority behaves — what they approve, what they refuse, how often appeals succeed, and what strategy gives you the best chance. This is behavioural intelligence, not just policy research.

Guidance to help you prepare — not formal planning advice. Check the current policy text and your council's local plan before relying on it.