🕵️ 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.

🔒 PlanningCore Exclusive — Deep Officer Behaviour Analytics

🧠 Gateshead Council — refusal-language fingerprint

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Refusal themes

design · 27×

highways · 23×

heritage · 11×

green belt · 11×

policy · 7×

amenity · 3×

Top policies cited

Policy CS19 · 13×

Policy CS14 · 9×

Policy MSGP15 · 8×

Policy CS15 · 7×

Policy QB3 · 6×

Policy CS13 · 6×

Top reused phrases

"character and appearance of" · 43×

"the character and appearance" · 38×

"national planning policy framework" · 22×

"the national planning policy" · 19×

"the national planning policy framework" · 18×

"of the national planning policy" · 17×

📋 Gateshead Council uses a structured scoring template

3 formal recommendation options per Urban Design / Consultee response:

Refuse —
Approve —

Criteria checklist the officer scores against:

MSGP34 · CS19 · CS15 · MSGP25 · MSGP26 · MSGP24 · CS18 · MSGP37 · MSGP15 · CS16 · CS17 · MSGP29 · MSGP30 · H4 ·

→ Address each criterion explicitly in your Planning Statement / DAS to pre-empt refusal grounds.

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⚠️ Data limitations on this profile. Of 22 decisions, 2 (9%) 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 20 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.

🕵️ Adam Ali · Gateshead Council

Total Decisions

80%

Approval Rate

196 days

Avg. Decision Time

Refusals

Mar 2026

Earliest Decision

Jul 2026

Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type	Total	Approved	Refused	Other	Approval Rate
Unknown	22	16	4	2	80%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

Under 4 weeks

4–8 weeks

8–13 weeks

13–26 weeks

Over 26 weeks

🚫 Refusal Details (4 refusals)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision Date	Similar precedents
DC/26/00070/FUL	12 Woolerton Drive Windy Nook NE10 9RQ	—	16 Jul 2026	Find similar →
DC/25/00399/FUL	1 Lenin Terrace Chopwell NE17 7EN	—	22 Jun 2026	Find similar →
DC/26/00199/ADV	Land At Park Road Gateshead NE8 3EJ	—	06 May 2026	Find similar →
DC/26/00014/FUL	R Brown The Windowmaker Ellison Road Gateshead NE11 9SS	—	29 Apr 2026	Find similar →

📋 Decision History (22 most recent)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision	Date	Days
24/01014/DOC1	Robson House Station Road Rowlands Gill NE39 1PZ	—	Approved	30 Jul 2026	70
23/00584/DOC1	The Nook Ryton Village West Ryton NE40 3QL	—	Approved	28 Jul 2026	432
DC/26/00070/FUL	12 Woolerton Drive Windy Nook NE10 9RQ	—	Refused	16 Jul 2026	168
DC/25/01078/FUL	Norcare Ltd Bibby House 37 Hallgarth Felling NE10 8XJ	—	Approved	08 Jul 2026	282
DC/25/00042/FUL	McDonalds Restaurant Shibdon Road Blaydon On Tyne NE21 5BT	—	Approved	30 Jun 2026	521
DC/25/00663/FUL	Former Maintenance Depot At The Corner Of Croft Close And Cushy Cow Lane	—	Approved	25 Jun 2026	328
DC/25/00399/FUL	1 Lenin Terrace Chopwell NE17 7EN	—	Refused	22 Jun 2026	392
DC/25/01236/FUL	18 Crowhall Lane Felling	—	Approved	09 Jun 2026	209
DC/26/00253/TDPA	Land At Heathfield Farm Greenside Ryton NE40 4AH	—	Approved	19 May 2026	53
DC/26/00199/ADV	Land At Park Road Gateshead NE8 3EJ	—	Refused	06 May 2026	55
DC/25/01215/DEM	1-28 Berryhill Close Garage Blocks Blaydon On Tyne Gateshead NE27 5JJ	—	Approved	30 Apr 2026	176
DC/26/00014/FUL	R Brown The Windowmaker Ellison Road Gateshead NE11 9SS	—	Refused	29 Apr 2026	105
DC/25/01377/FUL	6 Ryton Village West Ryton NE40 3QD	—	Approved	28 Apr 2026	130
DC/26/00082/FUL	Go North East Mandela Way Whickham NE11 9DH	—	Approved	27 Apr 2026	81
DC/25/01217/DEM	Garage Block Adjacent 16 Stephenson Way Blaydon	—	Approved	24 Apr 2026	170
DC/25/01392/DEM	Garage Block Adjacent To 78 Stephenson Way Blaydon NE21 6QW	—	Approved	15 Apr 2026	127
DC/26/00057/ADV	1 South View East Highfield Rowlands Gill NE39 2DJ	—	Temporary permission	27 Mar 2026	59
DC/26/00057/ADV	1 South View East Highfield Rowlands Gill NE39 2DJ	—	Decided	27 Mar 2026	59
DC/25/01376/FUL	6 Ryton Village West Ryton NE40 3QD	—	Approved	13 Mar 2026	85
DC/25/01376/FUL	6 Ryton Village West Ryton NE40 3QD	—	Approved	13 Mar 2026	—
DC/25/00045/FUL	DRIVING STANDARDS AGENCY Gateshead Driving Test Centre Waterside Drive Gateshead NE11 9HU	—	Approved	11 Mar 2026	411
DC/25/00045/FUL	DRIVING STANDARDS AGENCY Gateshead Driving Test Centre Waterside Drive Gateshead NE11 9HU	—	Approved	11 Mar 2026	—

🧠 Strategy Insight

This officer has a moderate approval rate (80%). They exercise reasonable scrutiny. Pay close attention to the application types they refuse most frequently (see breakdown above) and ensure your submission thoroughly addresses likely concerns.

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⏱️ Decision Speed Profile

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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.

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🏛️ Committee vs Delegated Split

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Committee/delegated tracking

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📡 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.