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Case officer · Westminster Planning

Amanda Jackson.

Active — last recorded decision May 2026

A case officer at Westminster with an approval rate of 92% across 58 decided planning applications, spanning 5 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer58 decisions92% approvalSave
Westminster · 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
At a glanceEach metric links to the investigation behind it
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58
Applications
2020–26
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%100%2020100%2021100%202260%2023100%202478%2025100%2026
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate92% · 33rd of 76
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 reports29 officer reports parsed
11%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
11%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
94%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Westminster's average officer

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

Energy & sustainability
2.75× borough avg
Flooding & drainage
1.81× borough avg
Precedent & consistency
1.67× borough avg
Noise & disturbance
1.24× borough avg
Transport & parking
1× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Jackson handles large affordable-housing-linked estate regeneration and heritage-hotel conversion schemes, tracing a site's specific negotiation history around a community-facility obligation (a proposed meeting room replaced with a financial contribution after the housing provider's own cost-management objection) in detail. On S73 amendments she cross-references each individually numbered condition (9, 11, 13, 15, 18) explicitly by number and tracks precisely which are amended, removed, or renumbered as a result of the current application.

Observable habits

· traces a site's specific negotiation history around a community-facility obligation in detail, including the named provider's own stated reason (disproportionate management cost) for preferring a financial contribution over a physical facility

· cross-references each individually numbered condition explicitly by number, tracking precisely which are amended, removed, or renumbered as a direct result of an S73 application

· distinguishes historic fabric that only APPEARS original from what physical investigation during works actually revealed (a fascia believed to be painted timber found to be painted stone), adjusting the approach accordingly

What their reports consistently look for

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a site's specific negotiation history around a community-facility or amenity obligation, including the named party's stated reasons for a chosen approach

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: each individually numbered condition, tracked precisely for whether it is amended, removed, or renumbered by the current S73 application

· what this officer's reports consistently look for: whether physical investigation during works revealed fabric to be different from what an original consent assumed

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In their own words

Sanctuary Housing, the Registered Provider (RP) who were going to own and manage the development at that time did not consider that a meeting room facility would be well used by the residents and would create disproportionately high management costs

20/00651/FULL

The fascia was originally believed to be painted timber and as such the December 2018 approved drawings indicate that the existing fascia is to be replaced with a new like-for-like painted timber fascia… The stone fascia does not appear to be original

21/02702/LBC

Measured from 29 published Westminster 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 29 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

H10
1 times cited
H3
1 times cited
S6
1 times cited
S14
1 times cited
S16
1 times cited
ENV13
1 times cited
S29
1 times cited
S30
1 times cited
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Decisions by ward

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.

Recent applications
Address
Reference
Type
Outcome
Date
26/03069/FULL
Full Planning Permission Application
2026-05-11
25/06825/COFUL
Full Application for Council's Own Dev.
Approved
2026-05-06
26/03069/FULL
Full Planning Permission Application
2026-05-11
25/06825/COFUL
Full Application for Council's Own Dev.
Approved
2026-05-06
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Consultants approved most— subscriber data
1. Gerald Eve LLP
2. The Planning Lab
3. Newmark
4. BDP
At a glance
OfficerAmanda Jackson
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications58 (2020–26)
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 Westminster planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 Westminster 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 29 published Westminster 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.