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Case officer · Croydon Planning

Jedd Goodwin-Roberts.

Last recorded decision Jun 2021 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 74% across 83 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer83 decisions74% approvalSave
Croydon · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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83
Applications
2020–21
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%64%202079%2021
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate74% · 32nd of 83
higher is betterdashed = London avg
Decision time · publishes with decision notices
in development
Appeal overturn · publishes with decision notices
in development
How this officer decides — from their own reports86 officer reports parsed
2%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
4%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
2%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
92%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Croydon's average officer

Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Croydon reports. Attention, not stance.

Materials & detailing
1.73× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.5× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.03× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.03× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.02× borough avg

Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.

How they reason — coded from their reports

Goodwin-Roberts's reports are structured with an explicit 'Sub Conclusion' or 'Sub-conclusion' paragraph closing each major topic before moving to the next, giving his reasoning a distinctly modular, checkpoint-by-checkpoint shape. He is precise on outlook/daylight harm to specific named bedrooms in specific flats within his own scheme (e.g. 'bedroom three in flat 3'), and is one of the more transparent officers about what conditions WOULD have secured had the application been recommended for approval, listing them even inside a refusal report.

Observable habits

· closes each major assessment topic with an explicit 'Sub Conclusion'/'Sub-conclusion' paragraph before moving to the next heading, giving the report a modular checkpoint structure

· identifies outlook/daylight/privacy harm to SPECIFIC named bedrooms within specific flats of the applicant's own proposed scheme (e.g. 'bedrooms no 1&2 in flat 1, bedroom three in flat 3'), not just neighbouring properties

· lists the specific conditions that WOULD have been imposed had the scheme been recommended for approval, even within a refusal report, rather than omitting conditioning detail once refusal is reached

What their reports consistently look for

· outlook/daylight/privacy quality assessed per named bedroom within the applicant's own proposed flats, not just as a whole-unit judgement

· whether sufficient highway information (swept path, visibility splay, storage) has been submitted to assess impacts, treated as a standalone sufficiency test

· an explicit 'Sub Conclusion' statement closing each topic before the report proceeds to the next

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In their own words

concerns are raised with regards to the level of outlook for bedrooms no 1&2 in flat 1, bedroom three in flat 3 and bedroom 1 & 2 of flat two. These identified bedrooms have flank positioned windows directly on the foot path down the side of the building

20/03008/FUL

it is considered that insufficient information has been submitted with the planning application to satisfactorily assess the impacts of the proposal on highways matters

20/03008/FUL

Measured from 86 published Croydon officer reports written by this officer, with recited policy boilerplate stripped before any counting. These describe how this officer works and writes — they are not outcome predictions. Every quote is from a named public report.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 86 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DM10Design and character
6 times cited
SP8.17
4 times cited
DM29Promoting sustainable travel and reducing congestion
4 times cited
DM30Car and cycle parking in development
4 times cited
D6
4 times cited
SP2Homes
4 times cited
DM28Trees
3 times cited
DM26.1
2 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–21.[1] Click the map above to focus this page on a ward, or a row to open the ward.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
20/05273/FUL
Full planning permission
Withdrawn
2021-11-09
21/00338/FUL
Full planning permission
Approved
2021-09-28
20/05273/FUL
Full planning permission
Withdrawn
2021-11-09
21/00338/FUL
Full planning permission
Approved
2021-09-28
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. APP Architecture
2. CGA Design & Build
3. PLANS INK LTD
4. Extension Architecture
At a glance
OfficerJedd Goodwin-Roberts
BoroughCroydon
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications83 (2020–21)
Approval rate74%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Croydon planning register and published decision notices, 2020–21. · methodology
  2. [2]Appeal overturn and decision-time benchmarks — Planning Inspectorate (PINS) appeal decisions and application date pairs; not yet computed per officer, shown as a dash until they are. · PINS appeals casework
  3. [3]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Croydon decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 86 published Croydon officer reports written by this officer, recited policy boilerplate stripped before counting; disposition text coded from their own reasoning with every quote machine-verified verbatim. Descriptive of how they work — not outcome predictions.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.