Andrew Foulkes.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 73% across 281 decided planning applications, spanning 20 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 Croydon reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Foulkes's caseload includes larger residential intensification schemes, and he is distinctive for explicitly noting when a wider POLICY CHANGE has occurred mid-process (the 2022 revocation of the Suburban Design Guide) and applying the resulting stricter density expectation retrospectively to find a previously-supportable quantum of development now unsupported. On pedestrian/highway safety he is precise in citing the exact sightline dimensional standard (e.g. 1.5m/1.5m with no features higher than 0.6m) and finding refusal-worthy failure where the applicant has not demonstrated compliance, rather than accepting the submission's general assurances.
· explicitly notes when a wider POLICY CHANGE (e.g. revocation of a design guide) has occurred and applies the resulting stricter standard even where the original quantum of development might once have been supportable
· cites the exact dimensional highway/pedestrian visibility standard (specific metre figures and maximum feature heights) and finds refusal-worthy failure where the applicant's submission does not demonstrate compliance against that precise standard
· separately assesses whether a site's PTAL and Controlled Parking Zone status justifies restricting car parking permits via unilateral undertaking, distinct from the base parking provision assessment
· whether a wider policy or guidance document relevant to the scheme has since been revoked or superseded, changing the applicable density/design standard
· the precise pedestrian visibility sightline dimensions (metres, maximum feature height) demonstrated (or not) in the applicant's submitted drawings
· whether restricting car parking permits via unilateral undertaking or s106 is warranted given the site's PTAL and Controlled Parking Zone status
“Following the revocation of the Suburban Design Guide in 2022 this quantum of development is no longer supported on this site.”
21/02624/FUL
“The submitted pedestrian sightlines are not of the required standard as they do not demonstrate a 1.5m/1.5m sightline either side of the opening in the boundary with no features higher than 0.6m within this area.”
21/02624/FUL
Measured from 35 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 35 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 Croydon 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 Croydon 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 35 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.