Sera Elobisi.
Last recorded decision Apr 2023 — no decisions in this record since
A case officer at Croydon with an approval rate of 72% across 410 decided planning applications, spanning 27 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 Croydon reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
Elobisi's corpus is dominated by HMO applications, and she is the borough's clearest specialist on Croydon's own room-size HMO standards (distinct from the national space standards), running a labelled table of 'Required'/'Provided' bedroom areas per person-count before concluding compliance. She refuses HMO schemes readily where multiple bedrooms fall short even by a small margin, and treats fire-safety/Environmental-Health objections from other Council teams as effectively determinative rather than something to condition around.
· runs a labelled bedroom-by-bedroom table (person count / required m2 / provided m2) against Croydon's own HMO room-size standard, separate from and in addition to the national Technical Housing Standards test
· treats a formal objection from the Council's Environmental Health/HMO Licensing team on fire-safety escape routes as effectively determinative of refusal, rather than a factor to be conditioned away
· on telecoms/GPDO prior-approval cases, works through each numbered statutory criterion in the Class A order rather than summarising compliance
· a completed bedroom-by-bedroom table against Croydon's own HMO room-size standard, not just the national space standard
· a formal sign-off (or objection) from Environmental Health/HMO Licensing on fire safety and escape routes before recommending approval
· whether the proposed development would fail to provide satisfactory standard of accommodation, tested per-bedroom rather than as a whole-unit average
“the proposal would not provide adequate accommodation in line with Croydon's standards for 3 of the 6 bedrooms. As such, the proposed development would fail to a provide satisfactory standard of accommodation, thus conflicting with Policy 3.5 of the 2016 London Plan”
20/00613/FUL
“The Council's Environmental Health Officer in her observations, considers this layout unacceptable and state these rooms would be prohibited under the Housing Act 2004”
20/05176/FUL
Measured from 279 published Croydon 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 279 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2020–23.[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 Croydon planning register and published decision notices, 2020–23. · 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 Croydon 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 279 published Croydon 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.