We've been able to get hold of the minutes of a meeting Tesco held with the planning department of St Albans Council on 4th July this year. The whole meeting is now documented below, but we'll start with the people attending first...
As well as a representative from Tesco (Louise Ford), there were two people from planning consultancy DPP including its senior partner Richard Flack. On its website DPP claims,
'..we are tenacious in helping our clients throughout the UK and Ireland to obtain valuable planning permission for their projects, be they big or small. We have the expertise and we use it. We advise on development and help to secure favourable land allocations in local plans.'
Sounds great, doesn't it - but of course there's not much about it doing what local people actually want...
Tesco also brought along Jo Richards from DLA Piper, 'the 6th largest legal services organisation in the UK' and Cliff Saunders, director of Saunders Partnership Architects.
For the council, attendees were planning officers Ben Borthwick, Philip Bylo and Andrew Robley.
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