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Case officer · Croydon Planning

Joshua Swaby.

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

A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 81% across 87 decided planning applications, spanning 13 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer87 decisions81% approvalSave
Croydon · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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87
Applications
2020–21
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%81%202080%2021
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate81% · 14th 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 reports127 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
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Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
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Measured from 127 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 127 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

3.5
6 times cited
DM10Design and character
6 times cited
7.1
4 times cited
7.4
4 times cited
7.5
4 times cited
7.6
4 times cited
D1
2 times cited
D3
2 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
13
83%
12
64%
11
82%
10
78%
9
89%
7
57%
6
100%
5
100%
5
60%
3
100%
3
100%
2
100%
1
100%
13
83%
12
64%
11
82%
Show all 13 rows
10
78%
9
89%
7
57%
6
100%
5
100%
5
60%
3
100%
3
100%
2
100%
1
100%

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
21/04378/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2021-11-26
21/04328/HSE
Householder Application
Refused
2021-11-05
21/04378/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2021-11-26
21/04328/HSE
Householder Application
Refused
2021-11-05
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. The Harvest Partnership
2. MM Planning
3. Plans
4. M.J.Read Building Design
At a glance
OfficerJoshua Swaby
BoroughCroydon
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications87 (2020–21)
Approval rate81%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
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 127 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.