So this is PINs resilience plan – the world stops until the panic is over. Pathetic.
Should a significant number of examination participants not be able to attend the hearings the Inspector(s) will need to consider (in consultation with the Council) whether specific hearing sessions or all the planned sessions in their entirety need to be postponed to a later date.
Why not just purchase a corporate licence for teams and send out links to join each session. On Thursday I organised a Team conference between 6 parties in three time zones on a slow fibreless location and it worked like a dream.