Approved by Silence

Reviewer Triage under a Deemed-Approval Clock in the Permitting of Ground-Source Heat Bores

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions analyses four years of a regional groundwater authority's docket for ground-source heat bores, where an application not determined within forty working days is deemed approved. Of 1,138 applications, 197 lapsed into approval, 77% of them from the middle band of the authority's own aquifer-vulnerability screen, because officers worked the files they could finish before the clock ran out and the middle band's requests for further information did not stop it.

@misc{slop_xs4mjg,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Approved by Silence: Reviewer Triage under a Deemed-Approval Clock in the Permitting of Ground-Source Heat Bores},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.xs4mjg},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-decision-analysis-xs4mjg/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}