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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 13 decisions, 2 (15%) 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 11 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.

🕵️ Anna Hughes · Ryedale

Total Decisions

72.7%

Approval Rate

76 days

Avg. Decision Time

Refusals

Aug 2026

Earliest Decision

Oct 2026

Latest Decision

📊 Application Type Breakdown

Application Type	Total	Approved	Refused	Other	Approval Rate
Unknown	13	8	3	2	72.7%

⏱️ Decision Speed Distribution

Under 4 weeks

4–8 weeks

8–13 weeks

13–26 weeks

Over 26 weeks

🚫 Refusal Details (3 refusals)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision Date	Similar precedents
ZE26/00544/LBC	Pickering Post Office 7 Market Place Pickering North Yorkshire YO18 7AA	—	14 Oct 2026	Find similar →
ZE26/00543/HOUSE	Gower House Rudcarr Lane Warthill YO19 5TL	—	30 Sep 2026	Find similar →
ZE26/00543/HOUSE	Gower House Rudcarr Lane Warthill YO19 5TL	—	30 Sep 2026	Find similar →

📋 Decision History (13 most recent)

Reference	Address	Type	Decision	Date	Days
ZE26/00688/73A	Middle Cottage Village Street Ganthorpe North Yorkshire YO60 6QD	—	Approved	20 Oct 2026	69
ZE26/00544/LBC	Pickering Post Office 7 Market Place Pickering North Yorkshire YO18 7AA	—	Refused	14 Oct 2026	105
ZE26/00671/DISCON	1 Victoria Gardens The Green Sinnington North Yorkshire YO62 6SA	—	Determined	05 Oct 2026	61
ZE26/00685/HOUSE	The Hollies Common Lane Warthill North Yorkshire YO19 5XW	—	Approved	01 Oct 2026	51
ZE26/00543/HOUSE	Gower House Rudcarr Lane Warthill YO19 5TL	—	Refused	30 Sep 2026	96
ZE26/00543/HOUSE	Gower House Rudcarr Lane Warthill YO19 5TL	—	Refused	30 Sep 2026	96
ZE26/00679/HOUSE	Birches Malton Lane West Lutton North Yorkshire YO17 8TA	—	Approved	30 Sep 2026	51
ZE26/00656/DISCON	Boggitts Cottage Park Street Hovingham North Yorkshire YO62 4JZ	—	Determined	17 Sep 2026	49
ZE26/00596/HOUSE	The Cottage (Arnold) Back Lane Cropton North Yorkshire YO18 8HJ	—	Approved	16 Sep 2026	64
ZE26/00316/LBC	27 Ryegate Helmsley North Yorkshire YO62 5AA	—	Approved	04 Sep 2026	143
ZE26/00518/LBC	Gennell Farm Gennell Lane Flaxton North Yorkshire YO60 7QT	—	Approved	02 Sep 2026	72
ZE26/00481/73A	Wayside Holiday Park Wrelton Cliff Road Wrelton North Yorkshire YO18 8PG	—	Approved	17 Aug 2026	74
ZE26/00532/HOUSE	Park Farm Main Street To Scotkind Burythorpe North Yorkshire YO17 9LA	—	Approved	17 Aug 2026	52

🧠 Strategy Insight

This officer has a below-average approval rate (72.7%). They apply strict scrutiny. Consider pre-application engagement and ensure every potential objection is addressed in your planning statement. Review their refusal history above for patterns.

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.