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Tom Pickering

Over an 11-month period, contributed to the Planning-Inspectorate’s appeal-planning-decision and appeals-back-office repositories by delivering end-to-end features for enforcement workflows, data integrity, and user experience. Developed and refined APIs, dynamic forms, and notification systems using JavaScript, Node.js, and React, with a focus on backend and full stack development. Enhanced data models, implemented feature flags for controlled rollouts, and integrated analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. Improved document management, deadline handling, and audit trails, while ensuring privacy and compliance through redacted data and secure configuration. The work accelerated decision cycles and improved maintainability across complex planning appeal processes.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

64%Features

Repository Contributions

202Total
Bugs
36
Commits
202
Features
65
Lines of code
67,375
Activity Months11

Work History

June 2026

7 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2026

June 2026 focused on delivering end-to-end improvements to enforcement workflows, notification clarity, and deadline management across two Planning-Inspectorate repositories. Highlights include a redesigned enforcement notice flow with conditional rendering and a simplified PDF, clarified appeal notification uploads, and backend/frontend fixes to ensure correct lead-change document handling, audit-trail accessibility, and time-zone-aware deadlines. These changes improve user experience, data integrity, and compliance readiness while reducing manual intervention.

May 2026

16 Commits • 8 Features

May 1, 2026

May 2026 monthly summary: Delivered cross-repo enhancements across Planning-Inspectorate apps focused on data integrity, privacy, UX, and deployment control. Key work includes enabling copy/move of representations with attachments and user IDs, exposing redacted representations in getRepresentations, broadcasting site visit events for child appeals, integrating Microsoft Clarity analytics, and rolling out the new BYS enforcement feature flag with routing updates. Additional UX improvements include appellant dashboard enhancement and child appeals UI refinements, complemented by targeted bug fixes in representations and decision logic. These efforts improve data fidelity, privacy protections, user efficiency, and governance readiness for enforcement workflows across three repositories.

April 2026

14 Commits • 3 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate development: Delivered key features for analytics tracking, expanded environmental statements support, and refined notification UX. Implemented Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics across the web app, configured environment settings and CSP nonce hardening, and updated policies to safely load analytics scripts. Added Environmental Statement Appellant capability to the environmental statements workflow and aligned interfaces and document types. Enhanced appeal notifications and representation displays, including corrected links and visibility of linked enforcement cases. Fixed critical data and rendering issues to improve accuracy of dates and preview validations. These changes improve business insight, compliance, and user experience, enabling more informed decisions and better stakeholder communication.

March 2026

12 Commits • 4 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 monthly summary focused on delivering business value through notifications, enforcement workflows, and data consistency across Planning-Inspectorate repositories. The team shipped user-facing and back-office improvements that streamline communications, reduce manual work, and accelerate enforcement case resolution.

February 2026

21 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate repositories. Significant enhancements across planning decisions and appeals back-office focused on retrospective planning, enforcement improvements, and data integrity. Key features delivered include enforcement retrospective applications support, ground (a) fee receipts, and UI/UX updates to reflect retrospective data, plus a data-model upgrade and API extensions visible in appeal details. In appeals back-office, data model and API integration were strengthened to support decisions, enforcement grounds, and retrospective applications, with a version bump to 2.x. Major fixes include gating LPA questionnaires for enforcement child appeals to maintain accurate case statuses, ISO date string mapping for LPA decision dates, and improved broadcast/notification flows. The combined work accelerates decision cycles, improves data consistency, and enhances stakeholder transparency. Technologies demonstrated include API and data-model versioning, data migrations, UI label updates, audit-trail tracking, and broadcast notifications.

January 2026

42 Commits • 13 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary focusing on key feature deliveries, major bug fixes, impact, and technical achievements across Planning-Inspectorate products. Highlights include enforcement workflow enhancements, data model upgrades, API/broadcast improvements, and environment-ready feature flag rollout.

December 2025

15 Commits • 5 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 update for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision. Delivered end-to-end enhancements across named-parties flows, multi-ground appeal submissions, and enforcement appeals; strengthened data modeling, deadlines handling, and UI messaging; and introduced dynamic form behavior and type-based site rendering to improve user experience. These changes reduce submission errors, improve compliance with deadlines, and increase process efficiency for complex planning appeals.

November 2025

17 Commits • 4 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-11: Delivered the core Enforcement Appeals workflow and expanded data capture to support enforcement notices appeals, UI/UX refinements, and back-office document formatting enhancements. These efforts streamline the submission process, improve data quality, and ensure consistency in official documents, enabling faster processing and better decision support across planning enforcement workflows. Key deliveries: - Enforcement Appeals Core Submission and Flow: Implemented new UI forms, routes, and login/reference flow to support enforcement notices appeals; added API routes, journey, and database schema; introduced start-appeal logic to bootstrap the flow. - Enforcement Appeals Data Capture and Site Details: Expanded data collection including contact details, site access, land interests, planning application questions, document uploads, and user preferences. - UI/UX Improvements for Enforcement Appeals: Updated page titles, UI fixes, and label/text clarifications to improve clarity and reduce user errors. - PDF Service: Standardized formatting of application types for planning applications; introduced formatting function and updated test snapshots to reflect terminology changes. - Quality and testing: Updated tests/snapshots to reflect the new data structures and UI flows, improving maintainability and regressions detection.

October 2025

19 Commits • 9 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month: 2025-10 — Delivered user-facing improvements and backend refinements across Planning-Inspectorate repos, driving better user experience, stronger data integrity, and safer rollout of new capabilities. Key features delivered across appeals-back-office, appeal-planning-decision, and infrastructure-environments include resubmission flow UI enhancements, support for invalid appeal reasons, improved PDF generation, duplication of decision letters for child linked appeals, and updated notification wording for appeal-type changes. Major bugs fixed include horizon reference updates for transferred appeals and robust validation accepting either appealId or caseId. Overall, these efforts reduced processing errors, improved documentation consistency, and enabled safer, faster case resolution. Technologies/skills demonstrated include UI/UX copy and front-end adjustments, backend data consistency and audit trail improvements, PDF generation pipelines, feature flag-based rollout readiness, and cross-repo collaboration.

September 2025

17 Commits • 7 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 performance summary: Delivered cross-repo improvements across appeal-planning-decision and appeals-back-office with a strong focus on UI clarity, data visibility, and lifecycle reliability. The work enhanced decision-document presentation, dashboard data fidelity, user guidance in critical flows, and notification/validation workflows to reduce errors and accelerate processing.

August 2025

22 Commits • 5 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 performance summary for Planning Inspectorate development teams. Delivered key features enhancing UI consistency and data integrity, implemented linked-appeals visibility with performance-focused data enrichment, and completed back-office governance improvements. Achieved measurable business value through improved readability, reliable cross-dashboard linked-case data, and hardened audit trails. Demonstrated proficiency in front-end and back-end work, data modeling, batch processing, and test coverage, contributing to faster decision-making and more accurate reporting across two repos.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.4%
Maintainability87.6%
Architecture86.6%
Performance86.6%
AI Usage24.6%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSHCLHTMLJSONJavaScriptMarkdownNunjucksSQLTerraformTypeScript

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI TestingAPI designAPI developmentAPI integrationAzure Blob StorageBack End DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCSSCode RefactoringConfiguration ManagementConstants ManagementData MappingDatabase Management

Repositories Contributed To

3 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision

Aug 2025 Jun 2026
11 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptSQLTypeScriptNunjucksCSSHTMLYAMLJSON

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI TestingBackend DevelopmentDatabase ManagementDatabase OptimizationForm Development

Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office

Aug 2025 Jun 2026
10 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptjavascriptSQLHTMLNunjucksTerraformTypeScript

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI TestingBackend DevelopmentFront End DevelopmentJavaScriptCSS

Planning-Inspectorate/infrastructure-environments

Oct 2025 May 2026
3 Months active

Languages Used

HCL

Technical Skills

Configuration ManagementFeature FlaggingInfrastructure as CodeDevOpsconfiguration managementfeature flag management