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[TP]

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

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

[TP]

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.



TP
Public Service Announcer and All Round Good Guy.

[dickieducati]

done

[Mark]

Also signed.

[ali]

done

[AK]

Done

[Rushjob]

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

[Jools]

Originally posted by Rushjob
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

[Brent]

Done

[clint]

Done.