Jennie Humphrey.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Westminster with an approval rate of 98% across 409 decided planning applications, spanning 15 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×.
Humphrey handles some of the corpus's highest-significance heritage assets — Wellington Barracks, the MOD Building's Tudor wine cellar, the Royal Albert Hall, the London Coliseum — nationally important Grade I/II* buildings where her reports open by establishing the specific historical/architectural basis for that significance before turning to the works. On functional back-of-house alterations to major venues she is willing to permit substantial physical intervention (new lift shafts, structural platforms) provided it is confined to already-functional, lower-significance areas away from the architecturally important spaces, and she credits conservation-led solutions (traditional lime mortar repairs by a specialist conservator) as necessary to safeguard fabric rather than as an imposition.
· opens major-heritage-asset reports by establishing the specific historical basis for the building's significance (who built it, when, what it incorporates) before assessing the works
· permits substantial structural intervention (lifts, platforms) in major venues provided it is confined to functional back-of-house areas away from architecturally significant spaces
· treats a conservation specialist's traditional-materials repair method (e.g. lime-based mortar) as necessary to safeguard exceptional fabric, not merely an acceptable option among others
· weighs a proposed change's health-and-safety benefit (preventing damage from unsafe existing equipment) alongside its heritage impact rather than treating them separately
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether physical intervention is confined to functional, lower-significance areas away from a building's architecturally important spaces
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a specialist conservator's traditional-materials method is proposed for exceptionally significant fabric repair
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a genuine health-and-safety driver for a proposed change, weighed alongside (not separately from) heritage impact
“The fabric is of exceptional significance and importance. As such the repairs are to be undertaken by a brick conservator using traditional materials (lime-based mortar) and techniques.”
20/00371/LBC
“Whilst extensive, the works are confined to the functional back of house areas of the theatre and avoid the more architecturally significant areas of the building.”
20/00417/LBC
“The current equipment presents a health and safety risk when manoeuvring cables, which in turn has resulted in damage to the plaster work on the gallery ledge.”
20/00374/LBC
Measured from 297 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 297 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–26.[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, 2020–26. · 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 297 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.