Nicola Blake.
Active — last recorded decision Mar 2026
A case officer at Brent with an approval rate of 64% across 357 decided planning applications, spanning 17 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 Brent reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Blake's reports cite specific policy code combinations at the point of refusal (e.g. DMP1, DMP17, DMP18 and London Plan Policy 3.5 together) and set out parking allowance calculations from the DMP appendix tables explicitly, including for major applications with dozens of flats. Prior-approval refusals name the exact statutory basis (Schedule 2 Part 3) that the applicant has failed to meet.
· lists the specific combination of local and London Plan policy codes breached at the point of refusal rather than a general policy reference
· sets out parking allowance calculations against named DMP appendix tables, including for larger multi-unit schemes
· identifies the precise GPDO/GPDO Schedule part that a prior-approval application fails to satisfy
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the full combination of specific policy codes (local plan and London Plan) breached, stated together rather than singly
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: a parking allowance calculation traceable to the specific DMP appendix table used
· what this officer's reports consistently look for: the exact GPDO Schedule 2 Part 3 class the applicant has failed to satisfy for prior approval
“The proposal fails to comply with London Plan Policy 3.5 and Brent’s Development Management Policies DMP1, DMP17 and DMP18 and is therefore recommended for refusal.”
20/0351
“The application therefore fails to meet the requirements for determination under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015, as amended.”
20/0176
Measured from 415 published Brent 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 415 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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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.
- [1]Applications decided, approval rate, per-year trend and ward breakdown — London Borough of Brent planning register and published decision notices, 2020–26. · 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 — Brent'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 415 published Brent 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.