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Case officer · Southwark Planning

Sandy Ng.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 92% across 109 decided planning applications, spanning 19 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer109 decisions92% approvalSave
Southwark · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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109
Applications
2022–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%97%202390%202489%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate92% · 27th 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 reports103 officer reports parsed
6%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
4%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
8%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
60%
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.

Character & heritage
3.43× borough avg
Materials & detailing
2.3× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.21× borough avg
Energy & sustainability
0.73× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
0.37× borough avg

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

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In their own words

There is no loss of historic fabric or harm to the listed building as it uses pre-existing openings made in the 1960s

22/AP/4085

Upon request, the applicant submitted a revised Fire Safety Strategy, which is more specific to the proposal concerned. The revised strategy is proportionate to the proposal

23/AP/0686

Measured from 103 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 103 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P13Design of places
13 times cited
P14Design quality
13 times cited
P20Conservation areas
12 times cited
P19Listed buildings and structures
10 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
6 times cited
P70Energy
5 times cited
P21Conservation of the historic environment and
4 times cited
D4Good
4 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2022–26.[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
26/AP/0976
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-05-27
26/AP/1408
Listed Building Consent
2026-05-15
26/AP/0976
Listed Building Consent
Approved
2026-05-27
26/AP/1408
Listed Building Consent
2026-05-15
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Rolfe Judd Planning
2. Purcell
3. Faithorn Farrell Timms LLP
4. Turley
At a glance
OfficerSandy Ng
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications109 (2022–26)
Approval rate92%
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, 2022–26. · 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 103 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.