Simon Thelwell.
Last recorded decision May 2024 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Havering with an approval rate of 90% across 61 decided planning applications, spanning 17 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 Havering reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“The proposed development is considered to be acceptable and would not be materially harmful to the character and appearance of the streetscene.”
M0006.24
“In addition, the relationship of the proposals to the church building would not be unacceptable.”
M0006.24
“Bedroom 4 on the top floor has a gross internal area of 6.6 square metres, which FAILS to meet the gross internal floor space of 8.5 square metres for one occupier in the HMO East London Guidance.”
P0061.24 · recommendation: It is recommended that planning permission be REFUSED for the following reason(s)
Measured from 307 published Havering 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 307 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2009–24.[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 Havering planning register and published decision notices, 2009–24. · 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 — Havering's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 307 published Havering 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.