🕵️ 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.
🕵️ Richard Smith · Gateshead Council
📊 Application Type Breakdown
| Application Type | Total | Approved | Refused | Other | Approval Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 27 | 20 | 2 | 5 |
⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution
🚫 Refusal Details (2 refusals)
| Reference | Address | Type | Decision Date | Similar precedents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC/26/00048/FUL | White Lion Veterinary Clinic Lowreys Lane Gateshead NE9 5JB | — | 19 Mar 2026 | Find similar → |
| DC/26/00048/FUL | White Lion Veterinary Clinic Lowreys Lane Gateshead NE9 5JB | — | 19 Mar 2026 | Find similar → |
📋 Decision History (27 most recent)
| Reference | Address | Type | Decision | Date | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC/26/00439/TDPA | — | Approved | 27 Jul 2026 | 52 | |
| DC/26/00412/FUL | — | Approved | 20 Jul 2026 | 56 | |
| DC/26/00404/LBC | — | Approved | 16 Jul 2026 | 56 | |
| DC/26/00228/FUL | — | Approved | 08 Jul 2026 | 110 | |
| DC/26/00229/ADV | — | Temporary permission | 08 Jul 2026 | 110 | |
| 25/00502/DOC1 | — | Approved | 05 Jul 2026 | 129 | |
| DC/25/01037/DEM | — | Approved | 30 Jun 2026 | 286 | |
| 25/00375/DOC1 | — | Approved | 16 Jun 2026 | 69 | |
| DC/26/00239/FUL | — | Approved | 12 Jun 2026 | 85 | |
| 23/00397/DOC5 | — | Approved | 01 Jun 2026 | 115 | |
| DC/26/00208/ADV | — | Temporary permission | 21 May 2026 | 69 | |
| DC/26/00062/FUL | — | Approved | 19 May 2026 | 110 | |
| DC/26/00151/FUL | — | Approved | 22 Apr 2026 | 55 | |
| 23/00397/DOC7 | — | Approved | 21 Apr 2026 | 46 | |
| 23/00397/DOC6 | — | Approved | 21 Apr 2026 | 46 | |
| DC/26/00111/FUL | — | Approved | 15 Apr 2026 | 62 | |
| DC/24/00343/FUL | — | Approved | 08 Apr 2026 | 715 | |
| DC/25/01323/FUL | — | Approved | 08 Apr 2026 | 123 | |
| DC/26/00068/ADV | — | Temporary permission | 25 Mar 2026 | 56 | |
| DC/26/00068/ADV | — | Decided | 25 Mar 2026 | 56 | |
| DC/26/00048/FUL | — | Refused | 19 Mar 2026 | 55 | |
| DC/26/00119/NMA | — | Approved | 19 Mar 2026 | 31 | |
| DC/26/00048/FUL | — | Refused | 19 Mar 2026 | — | |
| DC/26/00119/NMA | — | Approved | 19 Mar 2026 | — | |
| 24/00500/DOC4 | — | Approved | 13 Mar 2026 | 3 | |
| 24/00500/DOC4 | — | Unknown | 13 Mar 2026 | — | |
| DC/26/00085/DEM | — | Approved | 03 Mar 2026 | — |
🧠 Strategy Insight
This officer has a high approval rate (90.9%). They appear to be generally supportive of development. Focus on ensuring your application is policy-compliant and well-presented — straightforward applications should progress smoothly.
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.