BEagle,
If one of the LAPL requirments is that you need to do flying AFTER you have got a LAPL, then how can you go NPPL-LAPL-EASA SEP without getting a licence?
And if you can really go NPPL-LAPL-EASA SEP without the actual LAPL - since your school/instructor/examiner who didn't do the exam said it was all OK and the paperwork would have gone through fine etc - then why do ordinary mortals have to wait until the issue of their licence for it to be valid?
And what happens in the NPPL-LAPL-EASA SEP with no LAPL issued route if someone - heaven forbid, it never happens! - gets their paperwork wrong? Seems a high-risk option based on the number of initial licence applications that get rejected because of wrong stuff?