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Case officer · Southwark Planning

Megan Stevens.

Recently active — last recorded decision Nov 2024

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 96% across 98 decided planning applications, spanning 19 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer98 decisions96% 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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98
Applications
2023–24
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202395%2024
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate96% · 15th 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 reports126 officer reports parsed
4%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
8%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
6%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
60%
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.

Precedent & consistency
1.38× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.28× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.21× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.05× borough avg
Materials & detailing
0.94× borough avg

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

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In their own words

the upvc windows are proposed in the non-original loft extension only. This non-original loft extension was added to the rear of the property on planning permission granted in 2008 (see Southwark reference 08/AP/2061)

23/AP/2054

Permission has been granted for dormer extensions with upvc windows on Beauval Road (see Southwark references 21/AP/2352 and 13/AP/4391)

23/AP/2054

Measured from 126 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 126 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P13Design of places
89 times cited
P14Design quality
89 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
89 times cited
P15Residential
81 times cited
P18Efficient use of land
69 times cited
D12
30 times cited
P21Conservation of the historic environment and
28 times cited
P20Conservation areas
27 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2023–24.[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
24/AP/3296
Householder Application
Approved
2024-12-18
23/AP/3476
Minor application
Approved
2024-12-16
24/AP/3296
Householder Application
Approved
2024-12-18
23/AP/3476
Minor application
Approved
2024-12-16
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. The Art of Building Ltd
2. Resi
3. P+P Architects
4. Design Squared Ltd
At a glance
OfficerMegan Stevens
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications98 (2023–24)
Approval rate96%
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, 2023–24. · 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 126 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.