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Case officer · Southwark Planning

William Tucker.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Southwark with an approval rate of 95% across 156 decided planning applications, spanning 22 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer156 decisions95% 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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156
Applications
2022–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%95%202394%2024100%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate95% · 18th 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 reports179 officer reports parsed
3%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
8%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
12%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
54%
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.

Daylight & sunlight
1.43× borough avg
Bulk & massing
1.42× borough avg
Privacy & overlooking
1.38× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.31× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Tucker's commercial/retail-frontage reports track Protected Shopping Frontage vacancy-rate statistics and cite the specific Southwark Plan retail policies (P32/P35/P37) that a change of use is tested against. His residential amenity write-ups measure privacy in terms of window height above finished floor level rather than distance alone.

Observable habits

· cites the current Protected Shopping Frontage Survey vacancy rate for the specific frontage as the factual basis for a retail change-of-use judgement

· measures replacement window privacy impact by height above finished floor level (e.g. 1.7 metres) rather than boundary distance alone

· states cycle-parking requirements as an explicit spaces-per-square-metre calculation comparing the London Plan and Southwark's own (stricter) Local Plan rate

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the current vacancy rate on the relevant Protected Shopping Frontage as the evidence base for a retail change-of-use judgement

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the height above finished floor level of any new or altered side-elevation window bearing on privacy

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: cycle-parking provision calculated against Southwark's own Local Plan rate where it is stricter than the London Plan's

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In their own words

The latest Protected Shopping Frontage Survey confirms the vacancy rate of Lower Road and Plough Way to be 13%

23/AP/2551

Southwark's Local Plan requires a greater capacity for cycle parking than the London Plan, requiring 1 space per 45 square metres rather than 1 space per 75 square metres

23/AP/2551

Measured from 179 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 179 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

P14Design quality
141 times cited
P13Design of places
138 times cited
P56Protection of amenity
131 times cited
P15Residential
123 times cited
D12
45 times cited
P21Conservation of the historic environment and
39 times cited
P20Conservation areas
37 times cited
P19Listed buildings and structures
36 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
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Type
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Design Squared Ltd
2. The Art of Building Ltd
3. Classic Lofts London
4. Resi Design Ltd
At a glance
OfficerWilliam Tucker
BoroughSouthwark
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications156 (2022–26)
Approval rate95%
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 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 179 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.