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Case officer · Kingston Upon Thames Planning

Michelle Meskell.

Last recorded decision Aug 2022 — no decisions in this record since

A case officer at Kingston Upon Thames with an approval rate of 79% across 16 decided planning applications, spanning 11 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer16 decisions79% approvalSave
Kingston Upon Thames · 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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16
Applications
2021–22
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average

Not enough dated decisions for a trend yet.

What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate79% · 4th of 32
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 reports30 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
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Measured from 30 published Kingston Upon Thames 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 cited most on decision notices for applications Michelle Meskell decided — 4 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

D3London Plan
3 times cited
CS8Character, Design and HeritageKingston Upon Thames plan
3 times cited
DM10Design Requirements for New Developments (including House Extensions)134Kingston Upon Thames plan
3 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2021–22.[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
22/01757/HOU
Householder
Approved
2022-09-07
22/01197/HOU
Householder
Approved
2022-06-17
22/01757/HOU
Householder
Approved
2022-09-07
22/01197/HOU
Householder
Approved
2022-06-17
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Resi
2. MKsummer
3. The Plan Hub
4. Planning Additions
At a glance
OfficerMichelle Meskell
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications16 (2021–22)
Approval rate79%
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 Kingston Upon Thames planning register and published decision notices, 2021–22. · 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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 30 published Kingston Upon Thames 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.