Hi all, we had a simple child renewal which took 22 days. Application submitted 28 July, Docs received 2 Aug, it went straight to approved (no Processing stage) on 17th Aug, passport received on 19th Aug by TNT (we paid the extra £5 for recorded delivery).
Nothing was happening by day 16 so I went on Twitter and wrote a general post and a DM, and I think that worked/helped as we were approved the next day. So definitely do that, and allow an extra 5 or 6 days to the average shown of 16.8 days overall. Cheers