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Case officer · Croydon Planning

Lucas Zoricak.

Last recorded decision Nov 2020 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 64% across 45 decided planning applications, spanning 10 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer45 decisions64% approvalSave
Croydon · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
ShowingAll years · subscriber →across all years on record — a period re-scopes the headline figures and the trend
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45
Applications
2020
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%63%202075%2021
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What they decide — by application type
How they compare — Versus peers
Approval rate64% · 53rd 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 reports36 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
6%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
3%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
85%
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.

Outlook & amenity
1.64× borough avg

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

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In their own words

“The applicant has failed to demonstrate the 45 degree rule compliance (measured room the nearest rear ground floor habitable window, in line with the SPD: Suburban Design Guide 2019) on the proposed plans presented to the Local Planning Authority.”

20/04301/HSE

“In 1999 the Government asked the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) to set up an Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (IEGMP).”

20/00135/FUL

Measured from 36 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 36 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DM10Design and character
12 times cited
DM10.6
8 times cited
7.6
7 times cited
SP4Urban Design, Heritage and Local Character
7 times cited
3.5
6 times cited
7.1
5 times cited
7.4
5 times cited
4.11
2 times cited
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Decisions by ward
Ward
Decisions
Approval rate
7
40%
7
100%
6
67%
5
20%
5
80%
4
50%
4
75%
3
50%
3
67%
1
100%
7
40%
7
100%
6
67%
Show all 10 rows
5
20%
5
80%
4
50%
4
75%
3
50%
3
67%
1
100%

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020.[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
20/05128/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2021-02-02
20/05685/FUL
Full planning permission
Approved
2021-01-13
20/05128/HSE
Householder Application
Approved
2021-02-02
20/05685/FUL
Full planning permission
Approved
2021-01-13
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Wizarch Ltd
2. PLANS INK LTD
3. Mono Consultants
4. Studio Nineteen Limited
At a glance
OfficerLucas Zoricak
BoroughCroydon
RolePlanning officer
Experience—
Applications45 (2020)
Approval rate64%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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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. · 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 36 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.