There is something very wrong with the planning process when a council sets up its own company which then puts in its own planning application that is then voted through with next to no discussion by a set of councillors who are biased. I was reading in the local paper that one of those councillors who voted it through was on a management committee of a charity that received £860,000 in grants from the company putting in the planning application. Seems he felt he did not need to declare an interest.
To put it into context they voted to destroy one of Luton's largest public parks for council gain while at the same time voting to block a small supermarket on the grounds that it was on a tiny piece of green space that the public can't access.