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Case officer · Ealing Planning

Silindile Khumalo.

Recently active — last recorded decision Sep 2025

A case officer at Ealing with an approval rate of 88% across 131 decided planning applications, spanning 23 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer131 decisions88% approvalSave
Ealing · 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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131
Applications
2024–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%86%202488%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate88% · 13th of 44
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 reports50 officer reports parsed
17%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
17%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
2%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
50%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Ealing's average officer

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

Trees & landscape
3.52× borough avg
Daylight & sunlight
1.82× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.35× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.27× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.25× borough avg

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

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Measured from 50 published Ealing 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 50 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

D4
26 times cited
D3
25 times cited
D6
22 times cited
D8
13 times cited
D1
8 times cited
D5
6 times cited
T4
5 times cited
T6
5 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2024–25.[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
244851FUL
Full Application
Approved
2025-11-10
252967HH
Householder
Refused
2025-10-23
244851FUL
Full Application
Approved
2025-11-10
252967HH
Householder
Refused
2025-10-23
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. David F Ewins RIBA
2. Chalkline
3. Design Endeavours Ltd
4. Resi Design Ltd
At a glance
OfficerSilindile Khumalo
BoroughEaling
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications131 (2024–25)
Approval rate88%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
GovernmentMayor of LondonCouncilCommitteeOfficersDecisionsApplicantsInspectorate
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The delegated share by borough and officer — where the real power over decisions sits.
Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Ealing planning register and published decision notices, 2024–25. · 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 Ealing 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 50 published Ealing 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.