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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.

🔒 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 17 decisions, 5 (29%) 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 12 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.

🕵️ Josh Kenolty · Gateshead Council

17
Total Decisions
91.7%
Approval Rate
149 days
Avg. Decision Time
1
Refusals
Mar 2026
Earliest Decision
Jul 2026
Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type Total Approved Refused Other Approval Rate
Unknown 17 11 1 5
91.7%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

0
Under 4 weeks
4
4–8 weeks
4
8–13 weeks
4
13–26 weeks
4
Over 26 weeks

🚫 Refusal Details (1 refusals)

Reference Address Type Decision Date Similar precedents
DC/25/00225/FUL 12 Cornmoor Road Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 4PU 16 Jul 2026 Find similar →

📋 Decision History (17 most recent)

Reference Address Type Decision Date Days
DC/26/00251/NMA Tynedale House Holburn Lane Ryton NE40 3PF Approved 31 Jul 2026 126
24/00768/DOC1 HOLLY HILL NURSERY Holly House Holly Hill Felling NE10 9NQ Approved 29 Jul 2026 35
DC/25/00146/FUL Wardley Welfare Ground Wardley Lane Felling NE10 8BB Approved 17 Jul 2026 499
DC/25/00225/FUL 12 Cornmoor Road Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 4PU Refused 16 Jul 2026 474
DC/25/01062/FUL Jump Giants Forge Road Gateshead NE8 2RB Approved 16 Jul 2026 294
DC/26/00342/CPL Barmoor Cottage Main Road Ryton NE40 3TS Use considered to be lawful 23 Jun 2026 60
DC/26/00312/CPL 32 Hewitson Terrace Felling NE10 9HQ Development considered to be lawful 12 Jun 2026 56
DC/26/00050/FUL Dalziel Ltd William Street Felling NE10 0JW Approved 29 May 2026 122
DC/26/00162/CPL The Armstrong Tynemouth Pass Gateshead Development considered to be lawful 21 May 2026 79
DC/25/01382/FUL Unit 17B Follingsby Park Follingsby Lane Felling NE10 8YA Approved 14 May 2026 142
DC/25/01149/FUL Rosebirch Birch House High Spen Industrial Estate Front Street High Spen Rowlands Gill NE39 2PS Withdrawn 06 May 2026 201
25/01048/DOC1 McDonalds Restaurant Cameron Retail Park Metro Centre Gateshead NE11 9XU Approved 24 Apr 2026 29
DC/25/01296/FUL Furrowfield School Whitehill Drive Felling NE10 9RZ Approved 26 Mar 2026 120
25/00293/DOC1 Highfield Club House Smailes Lane Rowlands Gill NE39 1PG Approved 26 Mar 2026 41
25/00293/DOC1 Highfield Club House Smailes Lane Rowlands Gill NE39 1PG Unknown 26 Mar 2026 41
DC/26/00022/CDPA South Farm Barlow Road Barlow Blaydon On Tyne NE21 6JT Approved 18 Mar 2026 63
DC/26/00022/CDPA South Farm Barlow Road Barlow Blaydon On Tyne NE21 6JT Approved 18 Mar 2026

🧠 Strategy Insight

This officer has a high approval rate (91.7%). 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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📊 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

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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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