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Case officer · Newham Planning

Chloe Selwood.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Newham with an approval rate of 61% across 96 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer96 decisions61% approvalSave
Newham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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96
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%63%202067%202144%202256%202386%202489%202525%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate61% · 31st of 39
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 reports81 officer reports parsed
65%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
31%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
10%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
74%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Newham's average officer

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

Transport & parking
1.42× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.33× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.29× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.29× borough avg
Materials & detailing
0.81× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Selwood breaks multi-storey/multi-phase extensions into their component parts (ground floor, first floor, dormer) and assesses each separately before a combined conclusion, drawing on a named appeal Inspector's finding about render finish acceptability. She gives explicit consultee attribution (Environmental Health, LBN Strategic Design Manager) when a technical objection or condition is decisive.

Observable habits

· assesses each construction phase/element of a multi-storey extension (ground/first floor/dormer) as its own labelled sub-section before a combined conclusion

· cites a named Planning Inspectorate appeal finding on a specific design question (e.g. render finish) as a direct precedent

· names the specific consultee (Environmental Health, LBN Strategic Design Manager) whose comment is decisive to a condition or objection

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: each construction element of a complex scheme assessed as its own component before an overall conclusion

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a named Inspector's appeal finding directly on point for a design question

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: which named consultee's comment is the actual basis for a proposed condition

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In their own words

The Council reserve some concerns relating to the overall bulk and massing of the development, but accept the opinion of the Inspector that determined the appeal at 67 Lichfield Road, who considered the current design of all three storeys of development being finished in cream render adds to the visual appearance being more unacceptable than the dimensio

17/00750/PREAPP

The London Borough of Newham's Environmental Health (EH) Team has assessed the proposal for the extraction flue and have provided a response. The comments have stated that there is no objection to the extraction pipe in principle, but recommends two conditions

20/00184/FUL

Measured from 81 published Newham 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 81 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

SC4
33 times cited
T5
24 times cited
D4
20 times cited
SP1Borough
19 times cited
SP2Healthy Neighbourhoods
19 times cited
SP3and J1). These are indicated in relevant spatial policies and more extensively but not
19 times cited
SP8Neighbourly development and living conditions
19 times cited
D1
17 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–26.[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
26/00701/COU
Change of Use
Refused
2026-06-04
26/00958/FUL
Full Planning Permission
2026-05
26/00701/COU
Change of Use
Refused
2026-06-04
26/00958/FUL
Full Planning Permission
2026-05
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. CITYSCAPE PA
2. R J Griffin
3. Freeman Ankerman Partnership Limited
4. Agenda 21 Architects Studio Ltd.
At a glance
OfficerChloe Selwood
BoroughNewham
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications96 (2020–26)
Approval rate61%
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 Newham planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Newham 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 81 published Newham 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.