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Further to this, the follow-on result is that Appeal Inspectors are now too overburdened and understaffed. Accordingly, they are now parroting whatever the Planning Officers had claimed verbatim. I therefore had an Appeal dismissed this year where the Inspector unmistakably hadn't even read our Appeal Statement and had based his decision on a High Court decision which had been superseded by Parliament when it had revised the legislation. Basically, the Inspector was too busy to know or even to check what the current legislation was and issued an erroneous decision as a result which we're now having to have our Parliamentary Ombudsmen investigate...