1- The owners signed it off so must have been happy with the original plan?
2 - The new CEO is ripping up most of Purslow's work which is odd.
3 - Unless its all to do with the train station and no progress there, and the full plan can't happen because of that and this is the best compromise
4 - Building costs have got to a point where something had to be value engineered out to cut costs, villa live was deemed not worth it