No inquiry on Lidl permit that cost €331,000 in penalties Planning Authority rules out inquiry on 2009 decision to green-light the controversial permit for Lidl supermarket that has now resulted in €331,000 compensation to previous landowners over discrimination 8 July 2021, 7:57am by James Debono The Planning Authority has no intention of holding an internal inquiry after court sentence ordered it to fork out €331,295 in compensation for discrimination of landowners, over a Lidl supermarket permit in Luqa awarded to construction magnate Charles Polidano in 2006. The court found that the Cutajar family had been repeatedly denied permission by the PA to build a garden centre on the same land, outside development zones.