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Case officer · Newham Planning

Muniba Tariq.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Newham with an approval rate of 74% across 41 decided planning applications, spanning 16 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer41 decisions74% approvalSave
Newham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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41
Applications
2026
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 compareVersus peers
Approval rate74% · 27th 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 reports47 officer reports parsed
21%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
10%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
2%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
63%
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.

Bulk & massing
2.55× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.77× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.55× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.35× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
0.86× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Tariq's reports are notably concise and consistently structured (Achieving a High Quality Design / Delivering Neighbourly Development, each a short paragraph), giving explicit weight to whether an extension's scale is common within the immediate vicinity and whether it is visible from the public realm at all before reaching a character conclusion.

Observable habits

· explicitly states whether an extension is visible from the public realm/streetscene as a distinct step before assessing its character impact

· checks whether the proposed scale is already present via similar extensions in the immediate vicinity before accepting it as appropriate

· gives a short, direct separation-distance justification for why rear neighbours are unaffected, rather than a lengthy discussion

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether the extension would be visible from the public realm at all, as a first step before character assessment

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: comparable extensions already present in the immediate vicinity as the benchmark for scale

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the separation distance to rear neighbours as the basis for ruling out significant impact

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In their own words

It is further noted that the extension would not be readily visible in publicly accessible views and would therefore not unduly impact the streetscene

26/00131/HH

noting there are similar single-storey extensions within the vicinity, the extension would be appropriate within the context

26/00131/HH

Measured from 47 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 cited most on decision notices for applications Muniba Tariq decided — 22 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

49NPPF
32 times cited
SP1BoroughNewham plan
6 times cited
SP3and J1). These are indicated in relevant spatial policies and more extensively but notNewham plan
6 times cited
NPPFNPPF
6 times cited
D3London Plan
4 times cited
SP8Neighbourly development and living conditionsNewham plan
3 times cited
D4London Plan
3 times cited
HC1London Plan
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2026.[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
26/00654/HH
Householder Application
Refused
2026-06-09
26/00819/HH
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-08
26/00654/HH
Householder Application
Refused
2026-06-09
26/00819/HH
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-08
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Archway Building Consultancy Ltd
2. Design Ghar Limited
3. Stylish Interiors & Architecture
4. Tricon Design
At a glance
OfficerMuniba Tariq
BoroughNewham
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications41 (2026)
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 Newham planning register and published decision notices, 2026. · 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 47 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.