Another Betting Shop on Green Lanes

Not sure whether this is old news but just read online that the Planning Inspector has overturned the Council's decision to turn down another betting shop on Green Lanes where Nationwide used to be -  and held up the applicant's appeal. Can only presume the people who make these decisions live nowhere near here! Sometimes you do wonder what's the point of all these strategies and plans like the Local Development Framework when it seems that Govt bodies and the like will ride rough shod over local decisions without any reference or assessment of the needs of the local community.