The Infrastructure Projects

[Tricky]

The fact is though, that if it is the City (or any other council for that matter) causing the delays, chances are it hasn't even got to the political stages yet and it is being held up by the planning department and if it has, then recommendations wouldve been suggested to the council members (councillors) sitting on the Development Committee by planning officers to reject or approve the various stages going through planning. 

Elected members will only have their say once the application gets to the Development Control Committee (or whatever it is called now) once the planning officers (non elected council employees) are satisfied it can be put to the committee for approval/rejection. This will go back and forth between the club architects', planning department and Development Control committee countless times until everyone is in agreement with the project and all of the undertakings a project of this size are addressed and agreed upon. No easy task for a development of this size.
Let us not forget that the redevelopment of the ground will have many major impacts on the surrounding area and its residents along with many laws to be upheld, that wouldnt be seen in most other development schemes. From the councils perspective, these have all got to be absolutely spot on.

It would be unusual for a development project to be put before the full council, unless there were serious financial obligations being put to the council (I.e. a substantive loan from the council to assist in construction costs etc like we saw with the Trent End rebuild). Given the Council are bankrupt and we now have a billionaire owner, that scenario would appear to be highly unlikely.