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Case officer · Lewisham Planning

Joshua Knowles.

Last recorded decision Jul 2020 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Lewisham with an approval rate of 67% across 45 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer45 decisions67% approvalSave
Lewisham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
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45
Applications
2020
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average

Not enough dated decisions for a trend yet.

What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate67% · 44th of 52
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 reports

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Joshua Knowles's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Joshua Knowles decided — 43 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

127NPPF
11 times cited
NPPFNPPF
10 times cited
130NPPF
8 times cited
14Consideration of future wharf operationsLewisham plan
3 times cited
29SPD / guidance
3 times cited
91NPPF
1 times cited
92NPPF
1 times cited
108NPPF
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
8
75%
7
71%
7
71%
5
80%
5
40%
3
33%
2
50%
2
50%
2
50%
2
100%
1
100%
8
75%
7
71%
7
71%
Show all 11 rows
5
80%
5
40%
3
33%
2
50%
2
50%
2
50%
2
100%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020.[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
DC/20/117268
Full Planning Permission
Refused
2020-08-07
DC/20/117044
Householder Application
Refused
2020-08-06
DC/20/117268
Full Planning Permission
Refused
2020-08-07
DC/20/117044
Householder Application
Refused
2020-08-06
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Cadmonkies
2. BBD
3. Robinson Escott Planning
4. Urbanist Architecture
At a glance
OfficerJoshua Knowles
BoroughLewisham
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications45 (2020)
Approval rate67%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Lewisham planning register and published decision notices, 2020. · 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 Lewisham decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.