I suspect most LPA's will muddle through with a policy as it stands given the resources that have to go into adopting any new policy these days. To avoid abmiguity the simple thing to do is formally acknowledge the change to BfL12 in a short statement that can be posted on a suitable webpage. And, to be clear, I don't see that a refusal could be substantiated at appeal if it relied on a very specific aspect of a BfL policy that has been made redundant/superseded by BfL12. A lesson from this is that local policies should avoid relying on specific elements of guidance that could be revoked or amended at any time, or at least acknowledge that the implementation of the policy might need to change if the guidance it relies on is revoked or amended.
