Bastards is right, there's a long history of this kind of thing in the (Banana) Republic. There was an old listed school building in the town I grew up in, they were refused permission to demolish it so they went in with bulldozers and demolished it in the middle of the night hoping to get on with their plans once the outrage had died down. On this rare occasion they were forced by the courts to rebuild it to the original plans using the original bricks.
They will often buy a site when there's no chance of getting planning permission and let it grow wild, eventually after a few years when its a complete eyesore and a hang out for gluesniffers and drug dealers they reapply and everyone's delighted to have the place cleaned up, no matter what its then used for.
It's very likely that deals were made years ago for the land that has/will be bought for this motorway, quiet promises of great rewards for not objecting and future favours when they want to build motorway-side housing and industrial units in the valley and surrounds. No amount of submissions and protest would have as much clout as the deals done between the developers/landowners and this government. Especially when people in government are also landowners in the area themselves.
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