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Case officer · Lewisham Planning

Samuel James.

Last recorded decision Aug 2022 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Lewisham with an approval rate of 66% across 119 decided planning applications, spanning 12 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer119 decisions66% approvalSave
Lewisham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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119
Applications
2020–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%53%202074%202170%2022
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate66% · 46th 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

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Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Samuel James decided — 92 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

NPPFNPPF
47 times cited
127NPPF
16 times cited
170NPPF
12 times cited
124NPPF
8 times cited
108NPPF
6 times cited
130NPPF
6 times cited
196NPPF
5 times cited
109NPPF
4 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–22.[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/22/125559
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-10-18
DC/22/125559
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2022-10-18
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. HP Architects Ltd
2. Resi
3. The Harvest Partnership
4. ARCCIDESIGNS
At a glance
OfficerSamuel James
BoroughLewisham
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications119 (2020–22)
Approval rate66%
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 Lewisham planning register and published decision notices, 2020–22. · 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.