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Case officer · Southwark Planning

Lara Sharpe.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 77% across 46 decided planning applications, spanning 16 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer46 decisions77% approvalSave
Southwark · 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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46
Applications
2021–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%67%202375%202478%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate77% · 67th of 79
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 reports39 officer reports parsed
50%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
28%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
15%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
85%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Southwark's average officer

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

Transport & parking
2.59× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
2.42× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.84× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.52× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.29× borough avg

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

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In their own words

the design of the proposed extension was considered to be crude and detracted substantially from the elegant form, detailing and proportions of the existing building

22/AP/1015

It is noted there is a lapsed permission (13/AP/2296) on the site

22/AP/3024

Measured from 39 published Southwark 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 39 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P14Design quality
23 times cited
P15Residential
21 times cited
P18Efficient use of land
21 times cited
P13Design of places
21 times cited
P53Cycling
20 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
20 times cited
P70Energy
18 times cited
P65Improving air
17 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2021–26.[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
24/AP/3834
Major application
No determination
2026-06-01
25/AP/1149
Major application
Withdrawn
2026-04-16
24/AP/3834
Major application
No determination
2026-06-01
25/AP/1149
Major application
Withdrawn
2026-04-16
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. hgh consulting
2. JMS Planning & Development Ltd
3. Hybrid Planning & Development
4. Montague Evans LLP
At a glance
OfficerLara Sharpe
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications46 (2021–26)
Approval rate77%
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 Southwark planning register and published decision notices, 2021–26. · 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 Southwark 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 39 published Southwark 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.