Hi LTNman
Just done a bit of rummaging about and it appears it is the LLAOL (the airport), submitting the application for the transit link to the airport and not the council.
The council are providing the funding as a loan.
It also states in the planning application that it is a
"2.2km twin guideways mass passenger transit (MPT) system", so I think people including myself referring to it as a train service are mistaken.
It also states in other documents Ive read, the building contractors would be announced in October, but that doesn't seem to have happened yet.
I am imagining the system with be something similar to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Innovia_APM