Amanda Coulson.
Last recorded decision Apr 2024 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Westminster with an approval rate of 93% across 47 decided planning applications, spanning 10 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.
Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Westminster reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Coulson tracks S106-linked cross-site sequencing conditions precisely (a legal agreement requiring one site's construction to reach practical completion BEFORE another linked site can be occupied) and checks whether that sequencing has actually been honoured. On basement schemes in Surface Water Hotspots she requires a specific Flood Risk Assessment addressed within the structural methodology statement, and is willing to accept that extending an already-altered feature (a first-floor side extension already present) is 'difficult to resist' precisely because the precedent already exists on the same building.
· tracks S106-linked cross-site sequencing obligations precisely (one site must reach practical completion before a linked site can be occupied) and checks whether that sequencing has actually been honoured
· requires a specific Flood Risk Assessment within the structural methodology statement for basement schemes in a designated Surface Water Hotspot before accepting sufficient information exists
· accepts extending an already-altered feature (an existing first-floor side extension) as 'difficult to resist' in design terms precisely because the precedent already exists on the same building
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether an S106-linked cross-site sequencing obligation has actually been honoured before treating a permission as lawfully implemented
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a specific Flood Risk Assessment addressed within the structural methodology statement for a basement in a Surface Water Hotspot
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether an already-altered feature on the SAME building sets a difficult-to-resist precedent for further extension
“the developer must not commence York Terrace East prior to the commencement of Chesterfield Lodge and implement and construct Chesterfield Lodge to practical completion prior to the occupation of York Terrace East”
20/00172/CLEUD
“given the existing first floor extension, extending this further is considered difficult to resist in design”
21/03636/FULL
Measured from 43 published Westminster 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 43 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–24.[1] Click the map above to focus this page on a ward, or a row to open the ward.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Westminster planning register and published decision notices, 2020–24. · methodology
- [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]Condition load — mean effective conditions attached to Westminster decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 43 published Westminster 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.