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Case officer · Croydon Planning

Alexander Green.

Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026

A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 79% across 647 decided planning applications, spanning 26 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer647 decisions79% approvalSave
Croydon · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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647
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%82%202078%202182%202278%202375%202489%202559%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate79% · 22nd of 83
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 reports243 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
1%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
73%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Croydon's average officer

Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Croydon reports. Attention, not stance.

Flooding & drainage
2.14× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.29× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.15× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.92× borough avg
Trees & landscape
0.79× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Green's reports handle a wide mix including GPDO/prior-approval determinations and householder highways cases, and he is precise on measured highway-safety detail — visibility-splay dimensions and gate setback distances given in exact metres against the Suburban Design Guide's numeric standard rather than a qualitative safety judgement. On S106/CPZ matters he is willing to refuse purely on transport-funding non-agreement grounds (21/03495/FUL) even where the physical scheme itself is otherwise acceptable, treating parking-permit-removal agreements as a hard prerequisite in controlled-parking-zone locations.

Observable habits

· measures visibility-splay and gate-setback dimensions in exact metres against the Suburban Design Guide's numeric standard (e.g. '1.5m x 1.5m' sightlines, '5m' gate setback) rather than describing highway safety qualitatively

· on CPZ sites, treats failure to secure a Section 106/Unilateral Undertaking removing parking-permit eligibility as an independent, sufficient refusal ground distinct from the physical design assessment

· works through GPDO Class A/AA statutory criteria sequentially against the submitted plans before reaching a conclusion, rather than summarising overall compliance

What their reports consistently look for

· the exact metre dimensions of visibility splays and gate setbacks tested against the Suburban Design Guide's numeric standard

· a completed Section 106/Unilateral Undertaking removing parking-permit eligibility before accepting a car-free scheme in a CPZ

· whether a submitted Fire Statement addresses each of Policy D12's numbered fire-safety criteria in turn

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In their own words

Adequate pedestrian visibility sightlines of 1.5m x 1.5m, as demonstrated in Section 4.29 of the SDG, could not be achieved as the sliding gates overlap the static fence

21/00411/HSE

The applicant has been unable to enter into an agreement with the Council, therefore the proposal would not be acceptable on these grounds as it could lead to unacceptable impacts on parking stress within the locality

21/03495/FUL

Measured from 243 published Croydon 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 243 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DM10Design and character
6 times cited
D4
5 times cited
D3
4 times cited
DM28Trees
3 times cited
7.4
2 times cited
7.6
2 times cited
SP5Community Facilities
1 times cited
SP5.9
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
26/00944/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/00902/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-03
26/00944/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-04
26/00902/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2026-06-03
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. LPR Design
2. CANOPY PLANNING SERVICES LTD
3. Mitie
4. Jameson Architectural Surveyors
At a glance
OfficerAlexander Green
BoroughCroydon
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications647 (2020–26)
Approval rate79%
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 Croydon planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Croydon 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 243 published Croydon 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.