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Case officer · Southwark Planning

Susherrie Suki.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 95% across 192 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer192 decisions95% 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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192
Applications
2022–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%202395%202495%202594%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate95% · 17th 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 reports216 officer reports parsed
6%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
10%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
66%
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
2.17× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.48× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.42× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.22× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.11× borough avg

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

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In their own words

At the case officers' advice, amendments have been made to the proposal to remove the side elevation window

23/AP/2550

a review of the surrounding area indicates large-scale rear extensions, including adjoining property at no.4 (16/AP/3428) along with no.28 (16/AP/1664), 32 (17/AP/2727), 38 (16/AP/3783), and 42 Reverdy Road (17/AP/4739)

23/AP/2550

Measured from 216 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 216 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P14Design quality
129 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
128 times cited
P13Design of places
127 times cited
P15Residential
107 times cited
D12
53 times cited
P20Conservation areas
45 times cited
P21Conservation of the historic environment and
40 times cited
P66Reducing noise pollution and enhancing acoustic environment
26 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–26.[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/1013
Minor application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/AP/1135
Minor application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/AP/1013
Minor application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/AP/1135
Minor application
Approved
2026-06-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Resi Design Ltd
2. The Art of Building Ltd
3. Simon Whitehead Architects
4. Design Squared Ltd
At a glance
OfficerSusherrie Suki
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications192 (2022–26)
Approval rate95%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
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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, 2022–26. · 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 216 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.