Help save Castle Combe
 

There is an online petition available for you to sign to help save Castle Combe from closing.

http://www.petitiononline.com/306007/

I've copied this blurb from a post on VD:

Fellow team members.

Whatever your current view upon life in the UK (and I don’t really want you all to tell me). There is an increasing tendency for long standing traditional activities to be blighted by the NIMBYs (NIMBY stands for Not in My Back Yard).

Castle Combe Race Track (which is near Bath) is the last remaining licensed venue in the South West for circuit racing motor sport. It has been in action since the 50’s but is currently under threat from a local pressure group which is trying to place a noise restriction order upon it. The noise levels to which they are objecting occur for less than 5.5 hours in any one year and I personally struggle to see how this creates a statutory nuisance. In recent years the Circuit has taken preventative measures which it is legally bound to do under the law and they have taken ‘best practicable means’.

If this pressure group succeeds it will essentially close Castle Combe and yet another piece of our motoring heritage will be lost to petty politics.

If you feel as I do, that the circuit should remain (it also creates a lot of jobs in the locality), there is an online petition which you can sign. Weblink is below.

Hope that goes towards giving some background to assist your decision on whether to sign ot not.

:D

TP
Public Service Announcer and All Round Good Guy.

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And another......
Reminds me having to go out to mediate in a neighbour dispute....
Problem was, I knew that there were no neighbours within a good half mile of this newly refurbished cottage which had recently been bought by a guy who commuted to London ( 8 miles from Gainsborough railway station you see! ) and that the house was surrounded by open farm land.
On arrival, I'm told that the problem is that the farmer owning the field behind the house had dared to start working in the field with a tractor at 9.30 am on a Saturday morning and that I was to go and tell him to cease and desist until normal office hours!
I then explained that this was a rural area, not a city centre and that I would consider the farmer to be a most considerate neighbour for starting at 9.30am which didn't go down well.
The chap ranted a bit more until I pointed out that normal office hours in the area in summer were about 3.35am to 10.30pm.
The scary thing is that people like this actually exist and think that they can twist the rest of the country round their fingers to suit their very narrow view of how life is meant to run.
Makes you cringe to say the least......
Andy

True.

I'm not a churchgoer but I was totally amazed by the yuppies who bought 'The Old Vicarage' in the village I lived in at the time and then demanded that bell ringing for practise on Tuesday evening and for the Sunday morning service should cease. Didn't they realise that 'The Old Vicarage' was right next door to the church where bell ringing had been going on for 300 years?

The people who now live within earshot of Castle Combe probably moved in long after the circuit was built.

Petition signed

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What sickens me is you can be certain that every one of those complainants are incomers who were fully aware of the circuits existance, and therefore the noise it creates.

So, anyone who didn't live there before 1950 can bu&&er off somewhere else if they don't like it.

It's worse at Goodwood, and for the same reason of people with too much money to "sway" the councillors and far too much time on their hands to spend at the golf club, moving into the area.

It's happening everywhere.

In Brisbane there is some great live band venues in Fortitude Valley, a suburb right next to the city. It was always considered a more 'alternative' night out than hitting the clubs in the city itself and was more low key. In some parts it was/is quite seedy with Lady's of the Night roaming and trying to support their habits, you know the type of place I mean.

I saw The Living End in the Roxy there. Great venu (I think - :) )

About 4.5 years ago the property boom made it to Brisbane and all these rich people started moving into the Valley because of it's proximity to the city and it started becoming very trendy. Town house blocks went up and the old warehouses lining the river started turning into very trendy inner city living developments and cafe's went up everywhere. Right after this all the complaints started coming in about the noise from live music and they were all trying to have them banned. It would have really destroyed the character of The Valley. There was a march through the mall and petitions to keep The Roxy open - I left to come here before it was resolved but it would be a sad day if it was closed due to all the yuppies moving in.

So it's not exclusive to motorsport, or the UK even.

It gets under my skin a little bit ...

I bought my house 9 years ago, it's about 400 meters away from Havant Town RFC and at the weekens there's a fair bit of noise from the crowd and the PA system.

The club's been there since 1953 and it's existance was plain to see when I moved in. Do I complain about the noise? Never even considered doing so... if it bothered me then I'd have bought a pad somewhere else.

These people who complain just have no right to do so, it's just totally selfish and the council need to stand up and them to shut up or clear off.

I live 5 minutes walk to the Harlequins home ground and another stadium you might have heard of.

It tends to get busy around my place on rugby weekends. When I was riding home on Sat after being down in Alton I had to ask the police to let me down my street because it was all blocked off. Not one comment about my tinted visor or cans etc, although I was careful not to rev it over 3500RPM.

:D

Done.... What a great loss :( if the council get there way.

Sounds like you got a good case !! Just cone the road off and blag some council signs :devil::devil::devil:

Sorted 4D

Signee #6092.

6146 = Dominic Cann :D

sorted and i see a certain steve webster mbe has signed it with his comment of looking forward to racing there again soon.

No 6195, sorted.
I'm not even going to speak about how angry this sort of stuff makes me :flame::flame::flame:

No 6229!

My sisters boyfriend has an agricultual contracting buisness and he had a simular problem last year.

It was in the midle of harvest time about 11o'clock at night, when this guy who had not long moved into the area came out from his home and complained about the noise of the machine, he left saying he would call the police :o

But all was ok as the police never turn up :lol:

The finnished the feild soon after anyway!!!!!!



The thing is real locals to castle coombe Don't mind the noise,
It's just these a** holes thet move in and wantt to change everything to suit them :mad::mad::mad::mad:


Hey sounds like a new idea on hunting, set the hounds out to catch these buisy bodies :eureka::eureka::eureka:

When I lived in Somerset we had a similar problem. Someone moved into an Exmoor village and one of his neighbours was a chicken farmer-funnily enough he kept a cockerel which had a tendency to crow-as they do-around sunrise. Complaints to the council instigated a 'noise abatement' order served to stop the cockerel crowing. That's ok said the farmer I'll just wring it's neck, "oh no, you mustn't kill it, I just want you to stop it crowing"!!!!!!!!!!!!Fecking townies, they have got NO idea.

As I sat here typing this 2 Tornado's just flew bloody low over my house-a fairly regular occurance-what are the chances I can complain and get the airfield shut?????????:lol:

John
PS-signed the petition

6415.

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