Yorky Towers
Well Prescott certainly muddied the waters!
If I recall correctly, Coventry built the 'temporary" one million passenger terminal without planning permission and Warwickshire C.C said it had to come down. Prescott intervened, probably at the request of Bob Ainsworth the Coventry Labour MP, and ruled that Warwick C.C were absolutely correct the Terminal was illegal, but then said the Terminal could stay anyway - which was a typical Prescott action.
Everything that followed was, in my opinion, the result of that Prescott ruling.
CVT thought they had definitely had 'friends in high places' without realising that the Government Planning Inspectorate couldn't be swayed by politicians and would decide purely on the facts as they saw them.