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Case officer · Redbridge Planning

Sakina Mohamed.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Redbridge with an approval rate of 83% across 321 decided planning applications, spanning 14 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer321 decisions83% approvalSave
Redbridge · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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321
Applications
2024–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%77%202486%202576%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate83% · 8th 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 reports347 officer reports parsed
17%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
7%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
6%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
63%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Redbridge's average officer

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

Precedent & consistency
2.06× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.88× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.7× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.37× borough avg
Materials & detailing
1.35× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Mohamed's largest corpus in this set spans routine extensions to a highways refusal built substantially on a quoted planning-appeal Inspector's paragraph, reproducing the Inspector's own numbered findings before adopting them as the Council's basis for refusal. She gives precise dormer set-in figures (eaves, ridge, sides) individually for design and conservation-area cases alike.

Observable habits

· quotes an Inspector's appeal decision by numbered paragraph verbatim before adopting its findings as the basis for the current refusal

· states dormer set-in distances from eaves, ridge and both sides individually rather than as a single combined figure

· treats an existing, unimplemented Housing Design SPD depth guide figure as the explicit benchmark stated before any site-specific departure is discussed

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: an appeal Inspector's own numbered paragraph quoted to support the current recommendation

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: dormer set-in distances stated individually for eaves, ridge and each side rather than combined

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a Tree Officer's specific comment on protection measures cited before a non-dischargeable condition is proposed

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In their own words

6. As proposed, the extended dropped kerb would increase the distance over which vehicles could come into conflict with pedestrians. This is of particular concern as the nearby commercial and day nursery uses are likely to generate high numbers of pedestrian and vehicle movements. In my judgement the proposal would detrimentally impact pedestrian safety

2532/24

Proposed elevations indicate the rear dormer will be set in from the sides by 1 metre and set up from the eaves by 0.8 metres and set down from the ridge of the main roof by 0.5 metres

2460/24

Measured from 347 published Redbridge 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 347 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

LP26and LP27). This will enable a large
198 times cited
D12
194 times cited
D3
191 times cited
LP30Household Extensions
183 times cited
G6
139 times cited
LP33Heritage
61 times cited
HC1
56 times cited
LP38Protecting Trees and Enhancing the Landscape
32 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2024–26.[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
0805/26
Householder
Refused
2026-06-05
0579/26
Householder
Refused
2026-06-04
0805/26
Householder
Refused
2026-06-05
0579/26
Householder
Refused
2026-06-04
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Consulting Ltd
2. Nigel Associates Ltd
3. Resi Design Ltd
4. LIVARCH LTD
At a glance
OfficerSakina Mohamed
BoroughRedbridge
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications321 (2024–26)
Approval rate83%
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 Redbridge planning register and published decision notices, 2024–26. · 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 Redbridge 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 347 published Redbridge 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.