🕵️ 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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🧠 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. Only 9 decisions on record for this officer at Gateshead Council — not enough to draw firm conclusions. Take any stats below as indicative only. Of 9 decisions, 2 (22%) 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 7 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.

🕵️ Amy Williamson · Gateshead Council

Total Decisions

57.1%

Approval Rate

48 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	9	4	3	2	57.1%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

Under 4 weeks

4–8 weeks

8–13 weeks

13–26 weeks

Over 26 weeks

🚫 Refusal Details (3 refusals)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision Date	Similar precedents
25/01310/DOC1	Land At Lansbury Drive Elisabethville Birtley	—	08 Jul 2026	Find similar →
DC/26/00172/FUL	Yeshiva L Zeirim The Swallow Hotel Gateshead High West Street Gateshead NE8 1PE	—	18 May 2026	Find similar →
DC/26/00099/FUL	Site Of Former Ciborio Ltd Hawks Road Gateshead NE8 3AD	—	01 Apr 2026	Find similar →

📋 Decision History (9 most recent)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision	Date	Days
25/01310/DOC1	Land At Lansbury Drive Elisabethville Birtley	—	Refused	08 Jul 2026	28
24/00639/DOC1	ONYX GROUP Onyx House Colmet Court Queensway Gateshead NE11 0SD	—	Partial	02 Jul 2026	41
25/00860/DOC1	The Old Manse 2 Station Lane Birtley DH3 1DG	—	Approved	12 Jun 2026	39
DC/26/00353/DEM	Union Electric Steel Close Works Coulthards Lane Gateshead Quays Gateshead NE8 3DX	—	Approved	28 May 2026	28
DC/26/00172/FUL	Yeshiva L Zeirim The Swallow Hotel Gateshead High West Street Gateshead NE8 1PE	—	Refused	18 May 2026	74
DC/26/00196/DEM	Union Electric Steel Close Works Coulthards Lane Gateshead Quays Gateshead NE8 3DX	—	Withdrawn	15 Apr 2026	35
DC/26/00099/FUL	Site Of Former Ciborio Ltd Hawks Road Gateshead NE8 3AD	—	Refused	01 Apr 2026	50
DC/26/00201/NMA	Onyx Group Onyx House Colmet Court Queensway Gateshead NE11 0SD	—	Approved	01 Apr 2026	20
DC/25/01310/FUL	Land At Lansbury Drive Elisabethville Birtley	—	Approved	25 Mar 2026	113

🧠 Strategy Insight

This officer has a below-average approval rate (57.1%). 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.

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📊 Officer Approval Rates

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⏱️ 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.

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🏛️ 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

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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.