Professor Shane Kilcommins:

That is a really good question. To begin with, it was the vendor's planning that was received and that vendor's planning had indicated that this was ordinary accommodation and a planning issue did not arise in the circumstances. Although they also went on to note that they had not seen any internal alterations that were going to take place. Subsequently, on 23 March the university obtained its own planning advices and I want to refer in particular to one piece of correspondence. Initially, on 23 March both said there were concerns that this could be an alteration of use, a change of use, which gave rise to concern. It could also be an intensification of use. The exceptional provision does not apply in respect of any internal alterations at design phase. They were flagging this very early on. Even more recently, bearing in mind it went to the executive and the governing authority on 3 August, as late as 15 July one of those planning consultants - the architects - came back and expressed serious concerns about four issues. The planning issues, noting there were previously 62 objections in terms of the housing, noting that there was a warning letter for the developer-----