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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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⚠️ Data limitations on this profile. Of 25 decisions, 25 (100%) 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 0 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.

🕵️ Mr. S. D. Butler · Glamorgan

25
Total Decisions
0%
Approval Rate
0 days
Avg. Decision Time
0
Refusals
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Earliest Decision
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Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type Total Approved Refused Other Approval Rate
Unknown 25 0 0 25
0%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

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

📋 Decision History (25 most recent)

Reference Address Type Decision Date Days
2026/00159/FUL Installation of artificial cricket wicket and associated works — — —
2025/01192/1/NMA 16 Whitcliffe Drive, Penarth — — —
2025/00418/1/NMA 74 Murch Road, Dinas Powys — — —
2026/00462/FUL 17 St Dyfrig Close, Dinas Powys — — —
2025/01130/FUL Dig two new wildlife ponds and use the spoil from these to infill an existing pond on-site which has been significantly compromised by the presence of Crassula helmsii (New Zealand pigmyweed). — — —
2026/00634/FUL Existing Garage conversion to a Garden Room. — — —
2026/00622/LAW New single storey extension and dormer loft conversion both to the rear — — —
2026/00772/OBS Culverhouse Cross Roundabout, Cowbridge Road West, Caerau, Cardiff — — —
2026/00513/FUL Conversion of existing ground floor flats into one extended flat - the current ground floor rear flat is to be extended with new entrance to rear. — — —
2026/00478/FUL Part demolition of existing garage and construction of 2 storey side extension, single storey rear extension and front porch — — —
2026/00455/FUL 27 Countess Place, Penarth — — —
2026/00381/LAW Proposed Rooflights and PV panels — — —
2026/00415/FUL New roof, windows, doors and external cladding. Installation of solar panels, heat source pump and free-standing sauna. — — —
2026/00640/LAW Lawful implementation of planning permission ref 2005/00528/FUL - within 5 years (in compliance with condition 1) — — —
2026/00543/TPO Work to Tree(s) covered by a Tree Preservation Order No 09 of 1995 - Application for removal of tree T2 and HG1. — — —
2026/00180/FUL Wellbrook House, Trerhyngyll, Cowbridge — — —
2026/00511/FUL Reroofing requiring increase in roof height of approx 50mm — — —
2026/00496/FUL Extension and alteration of existing dwelling, including the erection of a rear glazed extension and reconfiguration of internal layout. — — —
2026/00495/FUL Installation of combined defibrillator and bleed kit cabinet to external wall of Nationwide Building Society branch — — —
2021/01710/1/CD Former Eastbrook Methodist Chapel, Chapel Row Eastbrook, Dinas Powys — — —
2023/00747/3/CD Hensol Castle, Hensol Castle Park, Hensol — — —
2026/00519/ADV Amendment to the refresh advertisement rate of the approved application 2026/00148/ADV. — — —
2025/01008/4/CD Discharge of Condition 3 (Material Details) of Planning application 2025/01008/RG3 - Proposed new school - Ysgol Iolo Morganwg — — —
2026/00410/FUL Single storey side extension — — —
2026/00548/TCA Application DETERMINED — — —

🧠 Strategy Insight

Insufficient decision data to generate a strategy profile. As more applications are processed, the intelligence will become richer.

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.

About this tool: Case Officer Intelligence

Individual case officer profiling — approval rates, decision speed, refusal patterns, appeal overturn rates, and tailored submission strategy advice.

When to use it

Use when you know which officer is assigned to your case, or to research officer behaviour in an authority before submitting. Deep officer behaviour analytics exclusive to PlanningCore.

Policy and guidance it draws on

Data-driven analysis of individual officer decision patterns

Part of Authority Intelligence

Use these tools to understand how your Local Planning Authority behaves — what they approve, what they refuse, how often appeals succeed, and what strategy gives you the best chance. This is behavioural intelligence, not just policy research.

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Guidance to help you prepare — not formal planning advice. Check the current policy text and your council's local plan before relying on it.

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