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Case officer · Lewisham Planning

Beverley Bewaji.

Recently active — last recorded decision Jul 2025

A case officer at Lewisham with an approval rate of 90% across 600 decided planning applications, spanning 19 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer600 decisions90% approvalSave
Lewisham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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600
Applications
2020–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%95%202078%202195%202289%202390%202491%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate90% · 13th of 52
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 reports

Not filled in yet — this needs at least 20 of Beverley Bewaji's own officer reports parsed, and their reports haven't reached that threshold in the parsing run. It fills automatically as parsing progresses; nothing is estimated in its place.

Policy playbook — what this officer cites[3]

The policies cited most on decision notices for applications Beverley Bewaji decided — 80 parsed notices. From the published notices themselves; their own report wording is parsed separately.

NPPFNPPF
4 times cited
130NPPF
2 times cited
126NPPF
2 times cited
30SPD / guidance
1 times cited
31SPD / guidance
1 times cited
111NPPF
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–25.[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
DC/23/134247
Householder Application
Refused
2025-10-22
DC/24/136506
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-10-22
DC/23/134247
Householder Application
Refused
2025-10-22
DC/24/136506
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2025-10-22
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Resi Design Ltd
2. Potter Raper Ltd
3. Resi
4. SELCOM BUILDING SERVICES LTD
At a glance
OfficerBeverley Bewaji
BoroughLewisham
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications600 (2020–25)
Approval rate90%
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 Lewisham planning register and published decision notices, 2020–25. · 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 Lewisham decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
  4. [4]Policy citations will be coded from officer reports against the adopted Local Plan, London Plan and NPPF — that parsing has not run for this borough yet.
Methodology is published in full so every number is traceable to its primary source.