willay
Moderator
Organiser: South East, National Events
Premium Member
Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
User status: Offline
|
source: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110246
quote:
The company that operates Mallory Park was put into administration this week, as the ongoing row over noise nuisance with the circuit's local community continues.
Mallory Park Motorsport Limited, which runs the circuit on behalf of the British Automobile Racing Club, has taken the step after failing to agree an increase in the number of days per year that the circuit is allowed to operate for, plus a reduction in the amount of rent it must pay to the landowner, Titan Properties, a company owned by former racer and BRDC member Chris Meek.
The circuit has been in dispute with its local council over noise for the past two years, which resulted in MPML being fined in Court earlier this year over five breaches of its planning agreement.
|
DaveyLC
Member
Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
User status: Offline
|
That will be the same fate for Castle Coombe soon!
People from the new housing estates complain on a regular basis.
|
Robin
Premium Member
Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
User status: Offline
|
There's no way they're coming back from this. Housing estate within 12 months.
|
DaveyLC
Member
Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
User status: Offline
|
The local authority will be ITCHING to get their hands on that nice bit of real-estate!
|
Ronson
Member
Registered: 6th Dec 10
User status: Offline
|
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
|
SteveoBC
Premium Member
Registered: 22nd Feb 07
Location: Bucks
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
|
*CorsaCal*
Member
Registered: 3rd Oct 10
Location: Leicestershire Drives: 20XE Corsa
User status: Offline
|
Nooooooooooo! And this:
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
I was going to Mallory before I could walk, as I only live 5 miles away, what pisses me off is that the local council is as corrupt as they come, walk through Hinckley, it's a ghost town, empty shops everywhere. The council seem hell bent on driving away every bit of business and the tiny bit of tourism that comes to the local area. They should tell the people bitching to fuck off if they don't like it. They won't shut down that HS2 train route because some locals don't like the noise.
Fucking bureaucracy nowadays. It'll be the death of this country.
|
corsadonk
Premium Member
Registered: 4th Jul 09
Location: Marlborough, Wiltshire
User status: Offline
|
Thruxton is also very limited, on the stuff it can do. This country is full of muppets, it's like me moaning about the road noise from the A346 which is about a 1/4 of a mile away. 
|
Ronson
Member
Registered: 6th Dec 10
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by corsadonk
Thruxton is also very limited, on the stuff it can do. This country is full of muppets, it's like me moaning about the road noise from the A346 which is about a 1/4 of a mile away.
Complain and see what happens!?
My bet is they'll send you a letter/say over the phone 'well you should have thought about that before you moved there!' but in a polite way.
|
SVM 286
Member
Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
User status: Offline
|
Never been to Mallory. How old is it?
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
It opened in the 40's for racing horses, then I think 50's for motorbikes.
|
Haimsey
Premium Member
Registered: 8th May 05
Location: Nottingham Drives: Corsa B
User status: Offline
|
Mallorys a great little place, such a shame.
Marcy Marc 
White Sport Progress Thread
|
neil h
Member
Registered: 28th Sep 06
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
It's been quoted several times already but i'll do it again because it's true. Who the hell in there right mind moves close to a racing circuit then complains about the noise. Mallory has been used for Motorsport for years, it's not as if it sprung up over night. I really don't get why councels panda to these people sometimes.
|
AndyKent
Member
Registered: 3rd Sep 05
User status: Offline
|
People are stupid, full stop.
Girlfriend works for the environment agency and says the number of people living in new build houses next to landfills ringing up to complain about the smell is staggering.
What, exactly, did you expect?
|
Jimbothebarbarian
Member
Registered: 19th Apr 07
Location: Cumbria..........drunk..
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by AndyKent
People are stupid, full stop.
Girlfriend works for the environment agency and says the number of people living in new build houses next to landfills ringing up to complain about the smell is staggering.
What, exactly, did you expect?
I think they expect to use the noise/smell or whatever to be used as a bargaining chip to buy cheap. Then complain and argue like fuck to get said problem removed and bingo, house value goes up...
|
AndyKent
Member
Registered: 3rd Sep 05
User status: Offline
|
I'm not sure these sorts of people are as smart as that.
|
RichR
Premium Member
Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
User status: Offline
|
Alton Towers is having the same issue with a couple who live close to the main entrance in Farley. Its been going on since the 70s with the court cases starting in 2002.
|
DaveB
Member
Registered: 29th Dec 00
Location: Huddersfield
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
Blinkers; you need both sides of the story.
See Pistonheads thread:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1259354&mid=45965&i=220&nmt=RE%3A+Mallory+Park%27s+future+in+doubt&mid
Mallory have been licensed 92 noisy days per year since 1985. In 2011 they did over 160 including un-silenced bike trackdays, drift days (including at night/evening) as well as MotoX & Musica Festivals. They hosted events like Japfest which lead to very long tailbacks in the village (4+ hrs) and all the people leaving these events need to show how fast/loud their car is on the way out. They have had drift day guys practicing on the the local roads on the way to and from the circuit.
It's not as clear-cut as it looks.
|
sc0ott
Member
Registered: 16th Feb 09
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
The same people who buy a new build house then complain years later when further houses are due to be built on a peice of land behind their home.
|
Simon_16v
Member
Registered: 14th Aug 06
Location: Yorkshire
User status: Offline
|
It's the same problem with Croft, been there since the 2nd world war yet people who move into a house close to the track complain about the noise.
Get's me how the council can limit the amount of days they can have track days etc. As said above, why would you move there knowing well there is a racing circuit close by?!
|
Tiger
Member
Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by DaveB
quote:
Originally posted by Ronson
Why the FUCK do people move somewhere close to a racing circuit THEN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FUCKING NOISE?
STUPID FUCKING C U N T S!
Blinkers; you need both sides of the story.
See Pistonheads thread:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1259354&mid=45965&i=220&nmt=RE%3A+Mallory+Park%27s+future+in+doubt&mid
Mallory have been licensed 92 noisy days per year since 1985. In 2011 they did over 160 including un-silenced bike trackdays, drift days (including at night/evening) as well as MotoX & Musica Festivals. They hosted events like Japfest which lead to very long tailbacks in the village (4+ hrs) and all the people leaving these events need to show how fast/loud their car is on the way out. They have had drift day guys practicing on the the local roads on the way to and from the circuit.
It's not as clear-cut as it looks.
So when I see/hear people drifting almost every day of the week around Hinckley that's because of Mallory? If I complained about the noise from the local industrial estate that now operates 24hrs a day, that means it'll be stopped? Does it bollocks. The local council see pound signs and housing / land value figures and want a piece of it.
If the motocross was too loud, stop the motocross. Which they have since done. So clearly they want to either turn it back into a pony track or cease activities there altogether. It's win win for the council and lose lose for the area and motorsport fans.
|
Ben G
Member
Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
User status: Offline
|
Whos to say the noise isn't travelling for miles? I'm not sure of the landscape around mallory park, but it could theoritcally be hears very far away.
I live 3 miles from a go kart track and some days I can hear the kart clearly. Other days its silent.
|
neil h
Member
Registered: 28th Sep 06
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Simon_16v
It's the same problem with Croft, been there since the 2nd world war yet people who move into a house close to the track complain about the noise.
Get's me how the council can limit the amount of days they can have track days etc. As said above, why would you move there knowing well there is a racing circuit close by?!
The best one was Donnington (iirc), the council prescribed noise limit for track days was so low that some factory standard track/road cars couldn't be used.
|
willay
Moderator
Organiser: South East, National Events
Premium Member
Registered: 10th Nov 02
Location: Roydon, Essex
User status: Offline
|
the piss take about Donnington is you can't hear yourself/the cars when the planes are landing at the airport every hour 
|
