After a. 2 year flying lapse, I renewed my licence and SEP last year
So you have a JAA PPL? This is now deemed to be an EASA PPL for regulatory
purposes - but would need to be changed for an actual Lifetime EASA PPL
before the 5 year expiry date.
I have not rechecked the regs for this Post, but from what I remember:
Neither an ATPL, CPL nor PPL contain LAPL privileges. A separate LAPL
Licence would be required (and this could be your only Licence, as you
are not allowed to hold more than one Licence per aircraft category).
So a PPL with "LAPL Medical" is not a valid Licence.
An LAPL is a Licence to fly a particular category of aircraft (in this case
SEP within certain limitations).
There are no Ratings attached that would require revalidating/renewing.
However, to exercise the privileges of the Licence you must meet certain
experience requirements before any/every flight as PIC (within last two
years 12 hours as PIC plus one hour with an Instructor?).
This could be a bit confusing to calculate leading to inadverdent illegal flying
According to the rules, as currently written, even a Proficiency Check with
an Examiner does not reset the experience requirements.
I suggest you continue with PPL plus Class 2 Medical for another
couple of years and then decide (after all EASA matters, including LAPL
issues, have settled down) what type of flying you want to do and therefore
what Licence might be the most appropriate for you.