I think there's gonna be a lot of busy bodies and NIMBY's desperate to throw as many spanners in the works as possible throughout this whole process.
After all the club have been through, and all the hard work that's been put in, over such a long period of time, just to get to this point, for this not to come to fruition, would be disastrous, and doesn't bear thinking about.
With that in mind, and although I'm usually against such practices, I think this is one of those times when a "big brown envelope" might be required to "help things along"