Lydia Bruce.
Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026
A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 88% across 42 decided planning applications, spanning 11 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×.
Bruce's caseload is dominated by routine householder extensions, and she is distinctive for explicitly comparing a new application against a SPECIFIC previously-refused application on the same site (naming its reference and decision date), identifying precisely what has changed in the new scheme and whether that change resolves the prior refusal reason, rather than assessing the new application in isolation. She also flags the live procedural status of the emerging revised Croydon Local Plan 2024 examination in public where relevant, and notes EPC ratings and Retrofit London targets as a positive material consideration for external wall insulation proposals.
· explicitly compares a new application against a specific PREVIOUSLY REFUSED scheme on the same site, naming its reference and decision date, and identifies precisely what has changed and whether it resolves the prior refusal reason
· cites specific EPC ratings and the Retrofit London Housing Action Plan's 2030 target as a positive material consideration weighing in favour of external wall insulation proposals
· notes the live procedural status of the emerging revised Croydon Local Plan 2024 examination in public where relevant to a scheme
· the specific reference and decision date of any previously refused application on the same site, and what precisely has changed in the current scheme
· the property's current EPC rating measured against the Retrofit London Housing Action Plan's 2030 target when assessing external wall insulation proposals
· the live procedural status of the emerging revised Croydon Local Plan 2024 examination in public
“While this application differs from the previously refused application 18/05605/HSE (16.06.2020) in respect of the fact that the extension in this application is not proposed to wrap around the rear outrigger, it is considered that the height of the extension (3m) remains excessive.”
25/04078/HSE
“The property currently holds an EPC rating of D, highlighting a clear need for thermal insulation improvement.”
25/03991/HSE
Measured from 20 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 20 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2025–26.[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, 2025–26. · 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 20 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.