Well there seem to be plenty of inconsistencies regarding timings so I am not convinced it’ll flow quite like that. Office location appears to be a big factor, which I find bizarre as these days geography isn’t important. I am surprised that applications waiting aren’t just sat on a centralised portal and they are picked off in submission date order by the next available agent regardless of where they are sat. Whilst my docs went to Glasgow they and my application are scanned onto the system so anyone, anywhere can process it.
Yes, we are very much eyes on October half term now sadly.