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Case officer · Bexley Planning

Madara Tukisa.

Recently active — last recorded decision Feb 2025

A case officer at Bexley with an approval rate of 85% across 35 decided planning applications, spanning 12 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.

Planning officer35 decisions85% approvalSave
Bexley · ward map
Approval rate — by ward
Lower ~68%
Higher ~90%
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35
Applications
2023–25
Approval rate over time — tougher or softer 🔒Dashed line = London average
avg 81%88%202471%2025
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What they decide — by application type
How they compareVersus peers
Approval rate85% · 15th of 31
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 reports27 officer reports parsed
0%
Approves despite concerns
of approvals record a documented reservation
0%
Negotiated approvals
approvals mentioning revisions/amendments
0%
"On balance" reports
reports using explicit balancing language
59%
Bespoke reasoning
of report text written for the case, not recited
What they write about — vs Bexley's average officer

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

Materials & detailing
2.23× borough avg
Outlook & amenity
1.89× borough avg
Trees & landscape
1.46× borough avg
Character & heritage
1.27× borough avg
Transport & parking
1.14× borough avg

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

How they reason — coded from their reports

Tukisa's small caseload is dominated by non-material amendments and permission-in-principle/technical-details-consent (PIP/TECHDT) two-stage applications, and is distinctive for keeping the two consent stages strictly separate — explicitly confining a technical-details-consent assessment to matters not already settled at the permission-in-principle stage (location, land use, amount of development), rather than re-litigating principle. She gives quantified fenestration change findings for non-material amendments (increase in floor area, altered window projection angle) as the deciding factor for materiality, and checks Biodiversity Net Gain EXEMPTION eligibility explicitly for self-build/custom-build schemes rather than assuming BNG applies universally.

Observable habits

· strictly separates the permission-in-principle stage (location, land use, amount of development) from the technical-details-consent stage's own narrower scope, explicitly declining to re-litigate settled principle matters

· treats quantified fenestration changes (floor area increase, window projection angle) as the deciding factor for whether a non-material amendment crosses into materiality

· explicitly checks Biodiversity Net Gain EXEMPTION eligibility for self-build/custom-build schemes rather than assuming the statutory 10% BNG requirement applies universally

What their reports consistently look for

· whether a technical-details-consent application is straying into matters (location, land use, amount of development) already settled at the permission-in-principle stage

· whether a proposed fenestration change increases floor area or alters window projection, as the deciding factor for non-material-amendment materiality

· whether a scheme qualifies for the Biodiversity Net Gain self-build/custom-build exemption rather than being subject to the standard 10% requirement

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In their own words

In granting 23/03399/PIP the scope of permission in principle is limited to: -location, -land use and, -amount of development. Other matters are to be considered at the technical details consent stage

24/01470/TECHDT

the application has been submitted as a self-build and custom development which is accompanied by a Biodiversity Net Gain Exemption Statement. On these grounds the application would not be subject to mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain requirements

24/01470/TECHDT

Measured from 27 published Bexley 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 27 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.

DP11
9 times cited
D4
7 times cited
D5
6 times cited
D6
6 times cited
T6
6 times cited
T6.1
6 times cited
SP1
6 times cited
SP2
6 times cited
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Decisions by ward

Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2023–25.[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
25/00201/FUL
Detailed Planning Application
Approved
2025-04-01
24/02979/FUL
Detailed Planning Application
Refused
2025-03-18
25/00201/FUL
Detailed Planning Application
Approved
2025-04-01
24/02979/FUL
Detailed Planning Application
Refused
2025-03-18
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At a glance
OfficerMadara Tukisa
BoroughBexley
RolePlanning officer
Experience
Applications35 (2023–25)
Approval rate85%
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 Bexley planning register and published decision notices, 2023–25. · 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 — Bexley's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
  4. [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 27 published Bexley 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.