🕵️ 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
Full pattern browser →- Refuse —
- Approve —
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.
🕵️ Mark O'Sullivan · Gateshead Council
📊 Application Type Breakdown
| Application Type | Total | Approved | Refused | Other | Approval Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 |
⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution
🚫 Refusal Details (3 refusals)
| Reference | Address | Type | Decision Date | Similar precedents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22/00125/DOC8 | Former BAE System Site Ravensworth Road Birtley | — | 26 Jun 2026 | Find similar → |
| 17/00170/DOC8 | Land To The South Of Whickham Highway | — | 29 Apr 2026 | Find similar → |
| 24/00576/DOC2 | Maingate Car Park Kingsway North Gateshead | — | 10 Apr 2026 | Find similar → |
📋 Decision History (16 most recent)
| Reference | Address | Type | Decision | Date | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC/26/00366/ADV | — | Temporary permission | 22 Jul 2026 | 77 | |
| 24/00576/DOC3 | — | Approved | 06 Jul 2026 | 55 | |
| 24/00576/DOC4 | — | Split decision | 06 Jul 2026 | 55 | |
| 22/00943/DOC1 | — | Approved | 06 Jul 2026 | 47 | |
| DC/26/00367/CPL | — | Use considered to be lawful | 02 Jul 2026 | 56 | |
| 22/00125/DOC8 | — | Refused | 26 Jun 2026 | 46 | |
| 22/00125/DOC3 | — | Approved | 18 Jun 2026 | 89 | |
| DC/25/00556/FUL | — | Approved | 29 May 2026 | 323 | |
| 22/00125/DOC5 | — | Split decision | 21 May 2026 | 61 | |
| 22/01003/DOC1 | — | Approved | 20 May 2026 | 14 | |
| 22/00125/DOC6 | — | Approved | 30 Apr 2026 | 40 | |
| 17/00170/DOC8 | — | Refused | 29 Apr 2026 | 29 | |
| 19/00556/DOC5 | — | Approved | 14 Apr 2026 | 68 | |
| 24/00576/DOC2 | — | Refused | 10 Apr 2026 | 36 | |
| DC/25/00428/COU | — | Approved | 13 Mar 2026 | 282 | |
| DC/25/00428/COU | — | Approved | 13 Mar 2026 | — |
🧠 Strategy Insight
This officer has a moderate approval rate (75%). 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.
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.