Hi,
I read through a bunch of recent appeal decisions yesterday for my local area, East Suffolk. I was slightly surprised that the inspectors seemed to be as non-fact-based, opinionated and capricious as my LPA - which suggests to me that appeals are a bit of a crap shoot. I had hoped that they would be more evidence-based than the LPA.
I see stuff like:
(1) I acknowledge that a brick wall abuts the back edge of part of the pavement along this side of the roa