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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: r1 on 30 September 2013, 20:10:17
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just heard that the council have closed the track due to complaints of noise from people living near the track hope someone can save it as ive spent many a happy hour there.
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Tragic ! :'(
The thing that annoys me about things like that is that the complainers almost certainly moved there long after the track was built and knew it was there when they moved in. >:(
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Had a track session there many moons ago.
We all(about ten of us) had the chance to drive a Formula Ford (with right hand gear change) and a Sierra Cosworth 4x4.
If memory serves it was in about 1990.
I hope MP survives. :'( :y
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just heard that the council have closed the track due to complaints of noise from people living near the track hope someone can save it as ive spent many a happy hour there.
Seems that the circuit has been placed into administration, rather than the council just closing it. They have problems with rent as well as noise.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110246 (http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110246)
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Thats a real shame - had my first race there and regarded it then as my "home circuit" (living in Leicester back then). Great circuit from a driving and a spectator pov - on the long circuit off the hairpin, then flat and into Devils Elbow fighting the adverse camber and the car trying to go over the finish rs end first :)
Had many a tussle with Roger Williamson through the chicane on the short circuit.
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OK, I know there are finacial aspects in play here as will, but it gets on my goat when arseholes move into a house, then insist that everyone else stops doing what they had previously been doing for years. Be that flights from airports, speed limits, demanding bypasses, or noise from pubs/clubs/race tracks.
Arseholes, the lot of 'em >:(
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Absolutely.People actually move from cities into small villages and then demand the 400 year old church stops ringing its bells as it disturbs their sunday morning.Its the me myself I society I suppose.
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Tragic ! :'(
The thing that annoys me about things like that is that the complainers almost certainly moved there long after the track was built and knew it was there when they moved in. >:(
Here here :y :y
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OK, I know there are finacial aspects in play here as will, but it gets on my goat when arseholes move into a house, then insist that everyone else stops doing what they had previously been doing for years. Be that flights from airports, speed limits, demanding bypasses, or noise from pubs/clubs/race tracks.
Arseholes, the lot of 'em >:(
I totally agree TB :y :y
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went to mallory park most weekends in the 1970`s. great track. would be a shame to see it go. :'(
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Slightly OT but an example of incomers calling the shots, as it were.
Up my neck of the woods theres an outdoor, full bore, rifle range that's been in existence since pre first world war.
A cottage nearby (several hundred yards or so) and was duly bought 15 to 20 years ago and immediately thereafter, noise complaints were forthcoming.
And were sadly, upheld but with a twist.
The range users had to build large wooded (railway sleeper) sound barriers twixt firing point and cottage and had to shoot through large (45 gall) plastic poly barrels lined with eggshell foam as an oversize non attached sound moderator. All at the range users expense rather than loose use of the range.
Despite all these steps the cottage owner still insisted on noise nuisance (perhaps 2 poss 3 days daylight use per week, winds permitting?) and it is a reluctant council permission for continued use despite being there for 100 years or so.....
Its a sad world...... ::)
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Shoot the owner of the cottage. :y :)
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We get complaints from the 'New' flats near the nick saying that our sirens are too loud :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D and can we turn em down??? the police station has been there over 100 years for gods sake! And No I won't turn off me sirens >:(
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Brintingthorpe however, had constant moaning, then one day announced "tough, take us to court, it's a pre war airfield, deal with it" where by the moaning stopped for a while. Last I heard.
Donnington park, east midlands airport just up the road and they moan about a bike exhaust over 95db :-\
Mallory, old as the hills, won a few trophy a there, and some scars, about as an enclosed and private a race track as its possible to get. It's the training ground of British motor sport. It MUST live on.
...having said all that, noise does grate on the nerves. :-\
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OK, I know there are finacial aspects in play here as will, but it gets on my goat when arseholes move into a house, then insist that everyone else stops doing what they had previously been doing for years. Be that flights from airports, speed limits, demanding bypasses, or noise from pubs/clubs/race tracks.
Arseholes, the lot of 'em >:(
Are we talking about the 'Big Bang' theory here? ::)
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I used to belong to a gliding club that was plagued by NIMBYs. Complaining of pilots looking into their upstairs windows while flying, and other such nonsense. Airfield had predated any of the local residents, of course.
On one occasion, the tug aircraft started running rough just when it was taking up slack to launch a glider. A fuel sample was analysed and it revealed a couple of pounds of Tate and Lyle in the tank. :o
Who in their right mind puts peoples' lives in danger through pure selfishness? >:(
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The oval circuit at Foxhall heath in Ipswich had a planning complaint upheld against them by the "new residents" of a new estate. Stopped them running the speed weekend and early closing of other meetings. After about 3 years, the managment decide to appeal the decision on the grounds of how long it had been there compared to the new residents and there houses. they won. The residents stated they did not know they were there when they bought the house. Seems to me they should be sueing there solicitors for not doing the area checks they like charging for
Keith B
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I used to belong to a gliding club that was plagued by NIMBYs. Complaining of pilots looking into their upstairs windows while flying, and other such nonsense. Airfield had predated any of the local residents, of course.
On one occasion, the tug aircraft started running rough just when it was taking up slack to launch a glider. A fuel sample was analysed and it revealed a couple of pounds of Tate and Lyle in the tank. :o
Who in their right mind puts peoples' lives in danger through pure selfishness? >:(
:o :o :o
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It used to be that if you moved to the nuisance then that is your problem. But these days I'm sure 'uman rights will take president.
It always annoys me when the Farnborough airshow is on that you get people complaining about the noise. Sorry, but the first flight in the UK was by Colonel Sam Cody from Lathens Plain where the airfield is located, which pre-dates any resident still alive and Farnborough since then has been about aircraft. It you don't like aircraft noise, then don't live near an airfield, simples.
A friend of mine are a very old Sandhurst family, where they have traditionally been publicans, you can trace back the surname through the pub licensing records for several hundred years. Anyway he keeps chickens. A local councillor moves to a house nearby and starts complaining about his cockerel crowing in a morning. He got warning letters and then a final warning if he didn't stop the nuisance they were going to take him to court. So he went round to the councillor's house with the cockerell and wrung its neck in front of him saying it won't be a problem to you now. It ended up as a big story in the local press with the councillor complaining how stressful and distressing it was having the cockerell killed in front of him.
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It used to be that if you moved to the nuisance then that is your problem. But these days I'm sure 'uman rights will take president.
It always annoys me when the Farnborough airshow is on that you get people complaining about the noise. Sorry, but the first flight in the UK was by Colonel Sam Cody from Lathens Plain where the airfield is located, which pre-dates any resident still alive and Farnborough since then has been about aircraft. It you don't like aircraft noise, then don't live near an airfield, simples.
A friend of mine are a very old Sandhurst family, where they have traditionally been publicans, you can trace back the surname through the pub licensing records for several hundred years. Anyway he keeps chickens. A local councillor moves to a house nearby and starts complaining about his cockerel crowing in a morning. He got warning letters and then a final warning if he didn't stop the nuisance they were going to take him to court. So he went round to the councillor's house with the cockerell and wrung its neck in front of him saying it won't be a problem to you now. It ended up as a big story in the local press with the councillor complaining how stressful and distressing it was having the cockerell killed in front of him.
Better than going round and wringing the councillor's neck, I guess, maybe ??? ;)
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So he went round to the councillor's house with the cockerell and wrung its neck in front of him saying it won't be a problem to you now. It ended up as a big story in the local press with the councillor complaining how stressful and distressing it was having the cockerell killed in front of him.
At that point, if it were me, it would then have been up the councillors arse. Sideways.
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A mate of mine sold his terraced pub a while back, due to stress from a neighbour....who buys a house thats attched to a pub and doesnt expect noise!?? He had complaints they could hear the darts going into the dartboard! My mate had the wall soundproofed and it was a big wall, he had to move radiators to do it. Then it was the disco's he held.....too loud! So he had to have a 'traffic light' system installled.....music goes too loud....amber warning....then red and power cut to the disco.....and forced to do this by the local council that gave him his licence. In the end he didnt give a toss....turned off the 'traffic light' system.....let the neighbour complain....and sold the pub.....its now been converted to flats!! All because of a pain in the ass neighbour!