🕵️ 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 · 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 18 decisions, 1 (6%) 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 17 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.

🕵️ Sarah Howard · Gateshead Council

Total Decisions

100%

Approval Rate

77 days

Avg. Decision Time

Refusals

Mar 2026

Earliest Decision

Jun 2026

Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type	Total	Approved	Refused	Other	Approval Rate
Unknown	18	17	0	1	100%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

Under 4 weeks

4–8 weeks

8–13 weeks

13–26 weeks

Over 26 weeks

📋 Decision History (18 most recent)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision	Date	Days
DC/26/00004/HHA	33 Runhead Estate Ryton NE40 3HS	—	Approved	09 Jun 2026	155
DC/26/00276/HHA	66 Runhead Estate Ryton NE40 3HS	—	Approved	04 Jun 2026	63
DC/26/00315/HHA	10 The Cedars Newcastle Upon Tyne NE16 5TH	—	Approved	03 Jun 2026	50
DC/26/00188/HHA	3 Barlowfield Close Winlaton Blaydon On Tyne NE21 6EY	—	Approved	27 May 2026	78
DC/26/00259/HCPL	8 Grange Road Ryton NE40 3LT	—	Approved	27 May 2026	58
DC/26/00274/HCPL	Westwood 24 Axwell Park Road Blaydon NE21 5PB	—	Approved	27 May 2026	54
DC/26/00130/HHA	12 Woodlands Park Drive NE21 5PQ	—	Approved	11 May 2026	83
DC/26/00211/HCPL	93 Horsley Avenue Ryton NE40 4XH	—	Development considered to be lawful	08 May 2026	55
DC/26/00193/HHA	2 Moss Crescent Ryton NE40 4XL	—	Approved	05 May 2026	55
DC/26/00165/HCPL	11 Rosedale Road Crawcrook Ryton NE40 4UN	—	Approved	28 Apr 2026	55
DC/26/00131/HHA	22 Tower Gardens Ryton NE40 3RR	—	Approved	20 Apr 2026	62
DC/26/00138/HCPL	2 Cypress Road Bleach Green Blaydon Gateshead NE21 5FF	—	Approved	20 Apr 2026	55
DC/26/00132/GPDE	66 Valley Dene Chopwell NE17 7EZ	—	Approved	02 Apr 2026	50
DC/26/00021/HHA	28 Burnhills Gardens Greenside Ryton NE40 4RB	—	Approved	25 Mar 2026	71
DC/26/00021/HHA	28 Burnhills Gardens Greenside Ryton NE40 4RB	—	Approved	25 Mar 2026	71
DC/25/00843/HHA	Brinell Smailes Lane Rowlands Gill NE39 1JE	—	Approved	10 Mar 2026	207
DC/25/00843/HHA	Brinell Smailes Lane Rowlands Gill NE39 1JE	—	Approved	10 Mar 2026	—
DC/25/01273/HHA	15 Dominies Close Rowlands Gill NE39 1PA	—	Approved	05 Mar 2026	—

🧠 Strategy Insight

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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📊 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.

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

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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.