Marina Lai.
Active — last recorded decision Apr 2026
A case officer at Newham with an approval rate of 100% across 29 decided planning applications, spanning 9 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 Newham reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“Albert Island forms part of the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside Opportunity Area as identified in Policy SD1 of the London Plan as an area presenting one of the largest regeneration opportunities in London”
20/00051/FUL
“officers are satisfied that reasonable endeavours have been undertaken to assist the existing businesses on site to be relocated to more suitable alternative premises, complying Policy J2 of the Local Plan”
20/00051/FUL
Measured from 21 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.
The policies this officer cites most across their decisions — how often each appears, and whether refusals citing it survive appeal.
In development — policy citations are coded from officer reports, and that parsing hasn't run for Newham yet. Nothing is shown until it is real.
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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.
- [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]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 Newham 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 21 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.