Whilst Brentford aren't my team and I don't wish them or any club to go under, and as someone who was a LBH employee at the time of Luke Kirton and had various direct dealings with him and always found him to be a very fair and sensible chap, none of what you posted is in any way a material planning consideration as to why the BFC stadium scheme should have been granted planning permission.As someone in the profession who spends a fair time on this and other forums rubbishing claims often made by the public about dodgy dealings and such like, I'm perfectly comfortable saying that the whole committee meeting at which the BFC Stadium application was determined was orchestrated to perfection, with each of the Labour councillors primed to ask a question about a specific issue that objectors had raised as though they were genuinely concerned and undecided (as they are required to be).I know this because having worked as an Officer when many of those Councillors were in post I knew the ones who were clued up and the ones who, to be kind, were not quite as clued up about how their conduct might outwardly appear, and it was one of the latter who memorably asked his primed question, but in doing so went off script as said how wonderful he thought the scheme was, thereby basically saying "I don't care how you answer this question because I support the scheme, but I've been told to ask you this to pretend we're listening to objectors".It was shameful.
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