Maya Elmi.
Last recorded decision Jun 2024 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Bexley with an approval rate of 87% across 236 decided planning applications, spanning 14 wards.[1] Decision speed and appeal performance publish when decision notices are ingested.
Topic mentions per 1,000 words of their own report text (boilerplate stripped), indexed against all parsed Bexley reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Elmi's caseload spans householder extensions, basement developments, shopfront/ATM installations and change-of-use applications (pub/restaurant, retail), and she is distinctive among the coded officers for handling BASEMENT excavation schemes — quantifying excavation depth against sloping garden levels ('formed by excavating about 3.2m under the existing footprint... about 1.2m above and 1.7m below the existing ground or garden level') and citing the borough's specific basement policy (D10) rather than treating basements as a routine rear-extension variant. On commercial change-of-use applications she engages carefully with Use Class E's post-2020 consolidation, explicitly reasoning through whether the proposed use (pub/microbrewery, ATM installation) falls within or requires Sui Generis reclassification, and checks Environmental Health conditions for odour/noise abatement equipment specification by named brand/model rather than accepting generic compliance statements.
· on basement excavation schemes, quantifies excavation depth against the specific sloping garden level (above/below existing ground) to establish subordination, citing Local Plan Policy D10 (Basement development) directly rather than treating it as an ordinary rear extension
· on commercial change-of-use applications, explicitly reasons through the post-2020 Use Class E consolidation to determine whether a specific use (pub/microbrewery, ATM) falls within E or requires Sui Generis reclassification
· checks Environmental Health odour/noise abatement conditions for a named brand/model specification (e.g. a specific wood-fired oven model, water-based soot filtration unit) rather than accepting a generic 'suitable extraction' compliance statement
· the specific excavation depth (metres above/below existing ground level) for a basement scheme on a sloping garden, and whether the structure appears subordinate as a result
· whether a proposed commercial use (pub/restaurant/microbrewery, ATM installation) falls within the consolidated Use Class E or requires Sui Generis treatment
· whether Environmental Health's requested odour/noise abatement equipment has been specified by named brand/model, not just generically described
“the rear extension would be about 1.2m above and 1.7m below the existing ground or garden level, therefore the proposed single storey structure will be set appropriately below the host property, and will appear subordinate to it”
23/00283/FUL
“Environmental Health was re-consulted and confirmed that the Gozney 1250 is exempted from use in smoke control area, according to DEFRA”
23/00948/FUL
Measured from 245 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.
The policies this officer cites most in their own reports — times cited across 245 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2023–24.[1] Click the map above to focus this page on a ward, or a row to open the ward.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Bexley planning register and published decision notices, 2023–24. · methodology
- [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]Condition load — Bexley's decision-notice parsing is limited coverage, so no borough or officer figure is shown.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 245 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.