Awot Tesfai.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Merton with an approval rate of 92% across 60 decided planning applications, spanning 22 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 Merton reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“The distance between the rear elevations of both the host and proposed dwellings would be approximately 15m, and approximately 12m to that of the rear elevation of the single storey rear projection of the host dwelling. It is a widely accepted standard that a minimum distance of 21m bet”
20/P3335
“The location of the proposed mast is adjacent to the existing mast and set almost 8m higher than the existing.…It is considered that the proposed equipment would be excessive in terms of its height and scale, coupled by the culmination of cabinets that would be sited next to the 20m high multioperator pole”
20/P0908
Measured from 28 published Merton 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 28 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 Merton 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 — Merton'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 28 published Merton 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.