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Case officer · Newham Planning

Kimberly Broom.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Newham with an approval rate of 55% across 54 decided planning applications, spanning 18 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer54 decisions55% approvalSave
Newham · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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54
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%50%202078%202163%202217%202358%202440%202567%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate55% · 33rd of 39
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
57%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
8%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
65%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Newham's average officer

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

Materials & detailing
0.86× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
0.79× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
0.76× borough avg
Transport & parking
0.76× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
0.63× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Broom explicitly names which policy (typically Policy SP8, ensuring neighbourly development) governs her amenity assessment before applying it, and her refusals identify a scheme as setting an unwelcome precedent for a street where that form of development is not yet established, distinct from purely amenity-based objections.

Observable habits

· names Policy SP8 (ensuring neighbourly development) explicitly as the governing policy before the amenity assessment that follows

· raises a 'precedent for the street' concern where a proposed form of extension is not yet established locally, as a design ground distinct from amenity harm

· notes the local pattern of existing extensions along a street as context for whether a scale is subservient

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: explicit citation of Policy SP8 as the governing framework before the amenity findings that follow

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether a proposed extension type is already established on the street, as a precedent concern distinct from amenity

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the existing local pattern of extensions as context for judging subservience of scale

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In their own words

Policy SP8 of the Local Plan has specific regard to ensuring neighbourly development. The proposal seeks to erect a first floor rear extension which would have a depth of approximately 4.2 metres and height of 5.5m along the boundary with No. 51 Hubert Road

20/00841/HH

two storey rear extensions are not a common feature on Nelson Street, or Sussex Road which runs parallel to the property at the rear. As such, any extension of this nature will set precedence for future development of the street

20/01818/HH

Measured from 50 published Newham 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.

SP1Borough
18 times cited
SP3and J1). These are indicated in relevant spatial policies and more extensively but not
18 times cited
SP2Healthy Neighbourhoods
16 times cited
D1
15 times cited
SP8Neighbourly development and living conditions
15 times cited
SC4
15 times cited
H1Stepped housing target for strategic sites delivery
15 times cited
D4
15 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–26.[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
25/02298/HH
Householder Application
2026-05
25/02820/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-04-21
25/02298/HH
Householder Application
2026-05
25/02820/FUL
Full Planning Permission
Approved
2026-04-21
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Stylish Interiors & Architecture
2. CITYSCAPE PA
3. Eastfield Architecture & Construction Ltd
4. Graham Simpkin Planning Ltd
At a glance
OfficerKimberly Broom
BoroughNewham
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications54 (2020–26)
Approval rate55%
London approval avg81%
Who decides here
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Sources & method
  1. [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Newham planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Newham 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 Newham 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.