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Case officer · Newham Planning

Nicole McShane.

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

A case officer at Newham with an approval rate of 80% across 114 decided planning applications, spanning 20 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer114 decisions80% approvalSave
Newham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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114
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 compareVersus peers
Approval rate80% · 21st 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 reports139 officer reports parsed
67%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
2%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
8%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
58%
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.

Privacy & overlooking
2.09× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.55× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.48× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.39× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.22× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

McShane structures her amenity findings around a two-neighbour comparison (the property to each side plus properties to the rear), consistently checking whether prior pre-application advice was addressed before assessing the final scheme. She gives explicit weight to garden orientation and to whether an existing structure being replaced already caused the impact now assessed.

Observable habits

· checks whether concerns raised at a prior pre-application stage were addressed in the submitted scheme

· assesses amenity loss against what the EXISTING structure already caused, not just the proposed new form in isolation

· gives explicit weight to a rear garden's compass orientation in reaching a daylight/sunlight conclusion

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether issues raised at pre-application stage have actually been addressed in the submitted scheme

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: comparison of the proposed impact against what the existing structure it replaces already caused

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the rear garden's compass orientation as a factor in the daylight/sunlight conclusion

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In their own words

This site was subject to pre-application advice (ref: 19/01315/PREAPP) which was not supportive of many aspects of the two storey extension presented as part of that proposal… This subject application appears to have addressed the Officer comments provided at the preapplication stage

20/00012/FUL

the height of the proposed extension at the boundary with No 25 will be reduced by approx. 1m thus thereby reducing any impacts on the amenity of this property

20/00033/HH

Measured from 139 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 139 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

SP3and J1). These are indicated in relevant spatial policies and more extensively but not
104 times cited
D1
103 times cited
D4
102 times cited
SP1Borough
102 times cited
SP2Healthy Neighbourhoods
102 times cited
SP8Neighbourly development and living conditions
99 times cited
SC4
97 times cited
S6Urban Newham
88 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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
20/01810/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Refused
2020-12-18
20/01463/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Withdrawn
2020-12-16
20/01810/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Refused
2020-12-18
20/01463/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Withdrawn
2020-12-16
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Design Ghar Limited
2. Resi
3. Civils Consulting Ltd
4. Zaavia Design Ltd.
At a glance
OfficerNicole McShane
BoroughNewham
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications114 (2020)
Approval rate80%
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. · 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 139 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.