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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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🧠 Gateshead Council — refusal-language fingerprint

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Refusal themes
design · 44×
highways · 35×
heritage · 23×
green belt · 16×
policy · 9×
ecology · 7×
Top policies cited
Policy CS13 · 18×
Policy CS19 · 16×
Policy CS15 · 13×
Policy CS14 · 12×
Policy MSGP24 · 11×
Policy MSGP15 · 8×
Top reused phrases
"character and appearance of" · 73×
"the character and appearance" · 66×
"national planning policy framework" · 36×
"the national planning policy" · 31×
"the national planning policy framework" · 30×
"appearance of the area" · 29×
📋 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 42 decisions, 31 (74%) 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 11 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.

🕵️ Chris Redfern · Gateshead Council

42
Total Decisions
100%
Approval Rate
49 days
Avg. Decision Time
0
Refusals
Mar 2026
Earliest Decision
Jun 2026
Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type Total Approved Refused Other Approval Rate
Unknown 42 11 0 31
100%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

7
Under 4 weeks
19
4–8 weeks
10
8–13 weeks
2
13–26 weeks
0
Over 26 weeks

📋 Decision History (42 most recent)

Reference Address Type Decision Date Days
DC/26/00325/TPO Brackendene House Brackendene Drive Gateshead NE9 6DP Approved 12 Jun 2026 52
DC/26/00102/TREE 2 Low West Avenue Rowlands Gill NE39 1EA Advice given 09 Jun 2026 118
DC/26/00127/TREE West Wynds Lintzford Road Rowlands Gill NE39 1DG Advice given 09 Jun 2026 111
DC/26/00329/TREE 11 East View Ryton NE40 3SP Advice given 09 Jun 2026 48
DC/26/00189/TPO Oaktree Cottage 10 Axwell Park Road Blaydon NE21 5NR Approved 03 Jun 2026 85
DC/26/00265/TPO 23 Axwell Park Road Blaydon NE21 5PB Approved 03 Jun 2026 74
DC/26/00234/TPO Lakeside Axwell Park Blaydon Approved 03 Jun 2026 71
DC/26/00311/TPO 19 Heathfield Place Gateshead NE9 5AS Approved 03 Jun 2026 47
DC/26/00181/TREE 4 Coronation Terrace Gateshead NE9 5JH Advice given 26 May 2026 80
DC/26/00260/TREE Clara Vale Sports Ground Edington Gardens Ryton NE40 3TB Advice given 26 May 2026 57
DC/26/00261/TREE St Marys Barmoor Lane Ryton NE40 3AN Advice given 26 May 2026 56
DC/26/00307/TREE Lady Park Farm Cottage Lady Park Lamesley Chester Le Street NE11 0HD Advice given 26 May 2026 41
DC/26/00321/TREE 153 Kells Lane Gateshead NE9 5HR Advice given 26 May 2026 35
DC/26/00378/TREE Wendover Belle Vue Bank Gateshead NE9 6BR Advice given 26 May 2026 26
DC/26/00365/TREE Sowlers Wood Dene Road Rowlands Gill NE39 1DU Advice given 26 May 2026 20
DC/26/00296/TREE St Peters Rc Church Kells Lane Gateshead NE9 5HY Advice given 22 May 2026 42
DC/26/00346/TREE Richmond Court Low Fell Gateshead NE9 5JG Advice given 22 May 2026 24
DC/26/00379/TREE St Marys Heritage And Visitor Centre Oakwellgate Gateshead NE8 2AU Advice given 22 May 2026 15
DC/26/00368/TREE 9 Greenacre Park Gateshead NE9 6HF Advice given 22 May 2026 15
DC/26/00256/TREE Kenmar House Haggs Lane Lamesley NE11 0EY Advice given 20 May 2026 53
DC/26/00271/TPO The Oaks High Horse Close Rowlands Gill NE39 1AN Approved 19 May 2026 47
DC/26/00236/TREE Axwell Park Public Open Space Lakeside Axwell Park Blaydon Advice given 29 Apr 2026 35
DC/26/00126/TREE Riding Lea Strathmore Road Rowlands Gill NE39 1JA Advice given 28 Apr 2026 69
DC/26/00194/TREE 8 Dockendale Lane Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 4EN Advice given 28 Apr 2026 48
DC/26/00235/TREE 1 Chase Court Whickham NE16 4NL Advice given 28 Apr 2026 35
DC/26/00214/TREE Southcroft Barmoor Lane Ryton NE40 3AB Advice given 23 Apr 2026 40
DC/26/00231/TPO Land Opposite Woodmans Arms Fellside Road Whickham Approved 22 Apr 2026 32
DC/26/00076/TPO 13 King George Avenue Gateshead NE11 9UP Approved 17 Apr 2026 73
DC/26/00108/TPO 44 Ancaster Road Newcastle Upon Tyne Gateshead NE16 5BQ Approved 13 Apr 2026 61
DC/26/00147/TREE Lilac Cottage 14 Front Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 4EL Advice given 09 Apr 2026 42
DC/26/00167/TREE 8 Earls Drive Gateshead NE9 6AA Advice given 09 Apr 2026 36
DC/26/00185/TREE Southfield 43 Grange Road Ryton NE40 3LU Advice given 09 Apr 2026 30
DC/26/00217/TREE Pink House 9 Front Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 4HF Advice given 09 Apr 2026 27
DC/26/00230/TREE 11 Beaconsfield Road Gateshead NE9 5EU Advice given 02 Apr 2026 50
DC/26/00018/TPO 1 Sandhill Mews Blaydon NE21 5SF Approved 17 Mar 2026 63
DC/26/00074/TREE East Lodge 15 Front Street Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 4HF Advice given 17 Mar 2026 48
DC/26/00226/TREE Dunmarvic Strathmore Avenue Rowlands Gill NE39 1HY Advice given 17 Mar 2026 4
DC/26/00018/TPO Ref. No: DC/26/00018/TPO | Received: Tue 13 Jan 2026 | Validated: Tue 13 Jan 2026 | Status: Decided Approved 17 Mar 2026
DC/26/00074/TREE Ref. No: DC/26/00074/TREE | Received: Wed 28 Jan 2026 | Validated: Wed 28 Jan 2026 | Status: Unknown Unknown 17 Mar 2026
DC/26/00226/TREE Ref. No: DC/26/00226/TREE | Received: Fri 13 Mar 2026 | Validated: Fri 13 Mar 2026 | Status: Unknown Unknown 17 Mar 2026
DC/26/00089/TREE The Old Rectory Ryton Village Ryton NE40 3QP Advice given 16 Mar 2026 39
DC/26/00089/TREE Ref. No: DC/26/00089/TREE | Received: Thu 05 Feb 2026 | Validated: Thu 05 Feb 2026 | Status: Unknown Unknown 16 Mar 2026

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This officer has a high approval rate (100%). They appear to be generally supportive of development. Focus on ensuring your application is policy-compliant and well-presented — straightforward applications should progress smoothly.

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⏱️ Decision Speed Profile

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🚫 Refusal Pattern Analysis

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

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⚖️ 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 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.
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