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Case officer · Southwark Planning

Hajnalka Berwick-Sayers.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 87% across 265 decided planning applications, spanning 23 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer265 decisions87% approvalSave
Southwark · 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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265
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%89%202086%202189%202277%2023100%2024100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate87% · 48th of 79
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 reports215 officer reports parsed
14%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
6%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
14%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
57%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Southwark's average officer

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

Outlook & amenity
1.68× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.64× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.5× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.48× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.44× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“all equipment used is exactly what is currently being used in the jewellery shop; which includes a polisher and a soldering iron”

20/AP/0155

“a condition is recommended so that the garages should remain ancillary to the jewellers shop to avoid issues with noise and disturbance from any other type of workshop”

20/AP/0155

Measured from 215 published Southwark 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 215 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P14Design quality
58 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
56 times cited
P13Design of places
55 times cited
13Other locations of tall buildings
48 times cited
P15Residential
43 times cited
P18Efficient use of land
16 times cited
D4Good
16 times cited
P54Car Parking
14 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
36
97%
22
100%
22
87%
18
92%
18
80%
17
94%
14
100%
11
100%
11
44%
11
100%
10
100%
9
71%
9
88%
7
100%
7
83%
7
57%
6
40%
6
83%
6
80%
5
75%
5
80%
5
50%
3
100%
36
97%
22
100%
22
87%
Show all 23 rows
18
92%
18
80%
17
94%
14
100%
11
100%
11
44%
11
100%
10
100%
9
71%
9
88%
7
100%
7
83%
7
57%
6
40%
6
83%
6
80%
5
75%
5
80%
5
50%
3
100%

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/AP/1038
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/AP/0951
Minor application
Approved
2026-05-28
26/AP/1038
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/AP/0951
Minor application
Approved
2026-05-28
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Interpolitan Ltd
2. R2 Studio Architects Ltd
3. Planning Potential Ltd.
4. Chris Scott Architects
At a glance
OfficerHajnalka Berwick-Sayers
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications265 (2020–26)
Approval rate87%
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 Southwark 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 Southwark 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 215 published Southwark 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.