Emmanuel Agyei.
Active — last recorded decision May 2026
A case officer at Sutton with an approval rate of 82% across 1,613 decided planning applications, spanning 18 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 Sutton reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Agyei's caseload spans everyday householder extensions through larger infill and HMO schemes, and his reasoning consistently separates a scheme's land-use principle from its design detail as two distinct tests — he will find a proposal acceptable 'in land use terms' by reference to an Area of Potential Intensification or prior non-objection to the principle, and only then move to a second, independent paragraph on scale, massing and subordination to the host building. His refusals tend to be grounded in a demonstrable loss of protected floorspace (industrial land, retail frontage) or a failure to substantiate an unusual land-use claim (e.g. an unsupported 'sui generis' assertion), rather than pure design harm, and he is meticulous about cross-referencing Local Plan floorspace/space-standard tables (Policy 9, Table 3.3) against the submitted square-metreage before concluding a scheme complies.
· splits land-use principle and design/amenity into two separately-reasoned tests, rather than folding both into one paragraph, even for straightforward householder schemes
· cross-checks submitted internal floor areas and room dimensions against the exact London Plan/Local Plan Policy 9 space-standard tables (e.g. '124 square metres' against an 8-person minimum) before concluding on layout acceptability
· on refusals concerning a use-class dispute, requires the applicant's own asserted use (e.g. 'sui generis') to be evidenced from the site's own planning history rather than accepted on the Design and Access Statement's word alone
· a documented planning history establishing the lawful/protected use of the site before accepting a change-of-use or 'sui generis' claim
· the precise submitted internal floor area and room dimensions checked against the London Plan/Local Plan minimum space-standard table for the relevant unit size
· whether the Council's own consultees (Highways, Sustainability, Biodiversity, Waste Management) have raised objection, cited by name, before concluding each topic paragraph
“The applicant asserts in his Design and Access Statement (Statementment regarding reasons for refusal) that the site is 'sui generis'. However, there is no evidence to support that assertion”
DM2020/00985
“With the site located within the Sutton Area of Potential Intensification coupled with the fact that no objection to the principle of development has previously been raised at the site, it is considered that the proposed redevelopment of the site to provide two residential units would comply with the above policies”
DM2020/00071
Measured from 1152 published Sutton 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 1152 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 Sutton 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 — mean effective conditions attached to Sutton decision notices (grant/split), parsed from the published notice text; a borough figure, not yet split per case officer.
- [4]"How this officer decides", the policy playbook and all quotes — parsed from 1152 published Sutton 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.