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Case officer · Southwark Planning

Rosie Poser.

Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 89% across 45 decided planning applications, spanning 14 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer45 decisions89% 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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45
Applications
2024–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202490%202586%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate89% · 38th 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 reports34 officer reports parsed
7%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
3%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
56%
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.

Character & heritage
4.09× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
0.54× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.18× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
0.1× borough avg

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

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In their own words

The internal alteration has occurred over the building's lifetime, especially during its conversion to hostel accommodation in the 1970s and the subsequent conversion into flats in the 2020s

24/AP/2864

Due to environmental protection concerns, the application has been amended to include acoustic cages for the external units

24/AP/2873

Measured from 34 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 34 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P13Design of places
5 times cited
P14Design quality
5 times cited
P19Listed buildings and structures
5 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
4 times cited
P21Conservation of the historic environment and
3 times cited
P20Conservation areas
3 times cited
P30Office
1 times cited
P15Residential
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2024–26.[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/0926
Minor application
Approved
2026-05-22
26/AP/1168
Listed Building Consent
2026-04-23
26/AP/0926
Minor application
Approved
2026-05-22
26/AP/1168
Listed Building Consent
2026-04-23
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. drsp architects
2. Baily Garner
3. Openreach
4. KYRKE-SMITH ARCHITECTS
At a glance
OfficerRosie Poser
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications45 (2024–26)
Approval rate89%
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, 2024–26. · 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 34 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.