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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

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⚠️ Data limitations on this profile. Only 9 decisions on record for this officer at Glamorgan — not enough to draw firm conclusions. Take any stats below as indicative only. Of 9 decisions, 9 (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.

🕵️ Sophie Andrews · Glamorgan

Total Decisions

Approval Rate

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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	9	0	0	9	0%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

Under 4 weeks

4–8 weeks

8–13 weeks

13–26 weeks

Over 26 weeks

📋 Decision History (9 most recent)

Reference	Address	Type	Date	Days
2026/00398/FUL	Replacing existing roof tiles with new roof tiles. Installing built in, integrated solar panels onto roof. Installing new soffits and fascia and down pipes for drainage. Removal of chimney stack.	—	—	—
2026/00293/FUL	Replacement of rear balcony for a larger area	—	—	—
2026/00506/TCA	Removal of trees from the rear garden, including Sycamore Maple, European Maple and European Ash - see plan for details.	—	—	—
2026/00474/TPO	Work to Tree(s) covered by Tree Preservation Order, 1992 : T1- Larch- Reduction of overhanging limb by 3m Approx. to suitable side branch	—	—	—
2025/01101/1/CD	Discharge of Conditions 3: (Biodiversity Enhancement Details) for planning ref 2025/01101/FUL - Demolish existing chimney and erection of new chimney similar to the previous chimney.	—	—	—
2026/00011/FUL	Extension and renewal of roof structure of existing garage to the rear of the property with new crossover to Grove Terrace.	—	—	—
2026/00403/FUL	142 Westbourne Road, Penarth	—	—	—
2026/00214/FUL	New single storey timber office/workshop to rear garden	—	—	—
2025/01246/ADV	Internally illuminated 1no fascia sign and 1no hanging sign on the north elevation.	—	—	—

🧠 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.

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