Karim El-Houssami.
Recently active — last recorded decision Dec 2024
A case officer at Enfield with an approval rate of 78% across 65 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 Enfield reports. Attention, not stance.
Mark = borough average (1×). Bar capped at 2×.
“The applicant was repeatedly contacted to give them the opportunity to submit revised drawings for the crossover to maintain a sufficient distance from the street tree. � 24/05/2024 � Initial email sent � 07/06/2024 � Follow up email sent � 12/06/2023 � Applicant was called by officer; no answer”
24/00545/FUL
“A Google Streetview survey of the surrounding area shows that multiple neighbouring properties have dropped kerbs connecting to off-street parking. Introducing one to number 88 would not impact the character of the area”
24/00545/FUL
Measured from 39 published Enfield 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 39 parsed reports. Whether refusals citing each survive appeal isn't traced per policy yet.
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Where this officer's caseload concentrates, 2024.[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 Enfield planning register and published decision notices, 2024. · 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 Enfield 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 39 published Enfield 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.