Just to put you all in the picture should someone else be in the same boat as me at your flying club; according to FCL (only took me an hour to get through!), fill in the paper application form for a LAPL and instead of putting x squillion pounds for a initial application in the fee box put £40, or £46 pounds for courier service. It would help I think to put a covering letter just in case explaining that you are converting from EASA PPL to EASA LAPL.
The downside is that it is now taking, according to the nice gentleman I spoke to, at least 45 working days to process licensing applications. So basically if you apply now you might be lucky and have a licence before Christmas.