Post by Nevs on Jan 6, 2009 22:51:33 GMT
The Planning application for a speedway Track in Bodmin has today been refused. 
Another sad day for Westcountry Speedway.
From www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/sport/Council-Bodmin-track/article-590362-detail/article.html
"PLANS for a new speedway track to be built in Bodmin have been rejected by councillors.
Grahame Smith and Ashley Taylor had been hoping to bring the sport back to Cornwall for the first time since 2003.
But a meeting of North Cornwall District Council's planning and development committee in Camelford voted 9-3 to refuse the proposal.
The councillors cited lack of information as the main reason for turning it down.
The two businessmen had proposed building a circuit for both speedway and cycle speedway on land within the Bodmin Rugby Club complex, close to where the A38 meets the A30.
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However, councillors turned down the application on several counts, despite the plans receiving more than 300 letters of support from within Cornwall and around the country, and the backing of Bodmin Town Council, as opposed to about 90 letters of objection.
Council planning officer, Mark Evans, told councillors in a report that the speedway track would cause harm to the beauty and tranquility of the countryside, and agreed with the National Trust's view that it would 'unacceptably erode' the rural setting of nearby Lanhydrock House. He also felt the applicants had failed to demonstrate that nearby residents would not be unduly harmed by the noise associated with speedway, and that neither the Highways Agency nor the County Surveyor were satisfied with the information provided about the likely number of additional vehicles using local roads on race nights and wanted a full transport assessment undertaken.
Taylor had insisted that three separate traffic surveys showed the roads could cope on race nights, and that the proposed speedway track would be 1.8 km from Lanhydrock House and described the site as a forgotten piece of scrubland.
Smith and Taylor had been hoping to enter a team in the new National League, where they would have joined up with fellow South West sides Plymouth Devils and Weymouth Wildcats.
After today's meeting they said that was the end of hopes for speedway in Cornwall in 2009, and it is likely they will look at other sites in the county for any future proposals.
Taylor and Smith are still hopeful another site might be found to bring back speedway to the Duchy for the first time since the closure of Trelawny Tigers at the Clay Country Moto Parc in 2003."
Today's decision is, however, another blow to speedway in the region.
Another sad day for Westcountry Speedway.
From www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/sport/Council-Bodmin-track/article-590362-detail/article.html
"PLANS for a new speedway track to be built in Bodmin have been rejected by councillors.
Grahame Smith and Ashley Taylor had been hoping to bring the sport back to Cornwall for the first time since 2003.
But a meeting of North Cornwall District Council's planning and development committee in Camelford voted 9-3 to refuse the proposal.
The councillors cited lack of information as the main reason for turning it down.
The two businessmen had proposed building a circuit for both speedway and cycle speedway on land within the Bodmin Rugby Club complex, close to where the A38 meets the A30.
Click here!
However, councillors turned down the application on several counts, despite the plans receiving more than 300 letters of support from within Cornwall and around the country, and the backing of Bodmin Town Council, as opposed to about 90 letters of objection.
Council planning officer, Mark Evans, told councillors in a report that the speedway track would cause harm to the beauty and tranquility of the countryside, and agreed with the National Trust's view that it would 'unacceptably erode' the rural setting of nearby Lanhydrock House. He also felt the applicants had failed to demonstrate that nearby residents would not be unduly harmed by the noise associated with speedway, and that neither the Highways Agency nor the County Surveyor were satisfied with the information provided about the likely number of additional vehicles using local roads on race nights and wanted a full transport assessment undertaken.
Taylor had insisted that three separate traffic surveys showed the roads could cope on race nights, and that the proposed speedway track would be 1.8 km from Lanhydrock House and described the site as a forgotten piece of scrubland.
Smith and Taylor had been hoping to enter a team in the new National League, where they would have joined up with fellow South West sides Plymouth Devils and Weymouth Wildcats.
After today's meeting they said that was the end of hopes for speedway in Cornwall in 2009, and it is likely they will look at other sites in the county for any future proposals.
Taylor and Smith are still hopeful another site might be found to bring back speedway to the Duchy for the first time since the closure of Trelawny Tigers at the Clay Country Moto Parc in 2003."
Today's decision is, however, another blow to speedway in the region.
