RE: You Know You Want To: Manby Motorplex for sale
Thursday 17th May 2012
The crumbly old runways and perimeter tracks of Lincolnshire's many disused airfields have proved popular locations for all sorts of automotive fun, with new venues like Blyton Park springing up alongside more established and traditional parkland circuits like Cadwell. Close to the latter and near to Louth, Manby Motorplex is your traditional disused airfield with a perimeter track that serves as a circuit and a huge variety of off-road terrain for putting everything from tanks to rally cars through their paces.
Save the right to do this at Manby!Boss James Tointon is the reluctant vendor, forced by circumstance to put the site on the market and keen to see it flourish as a base for grassroots motorsport rather than be ploughed back into farmland as might well happen if a suitable buyer isn't found.
You Know You Want To: Manby Motorplex for sale
Fancy buying your own track? Manby Motorplex is on the market and needs a saviour...
And it could all be yours for £3.5m, ono.
Save the right to do this at Manby!
The site, which includes 100 acres of off-road tracks, 25 acres of hard standing, the 2.3-mile perimeter track, an airstrip and 300 acres of, it says here, 'prime agricultural land' could be sold off in separate chunks should an operator want to pick up just the motorsport side and Tointon is keen to see this survive in new hands. OK, so there is the small issue of the occasional unexploded bomb being dug up from time to time but don't let that put you off if you're interested!
Interested parties can contact the estate agents here. Raising the question, what's it to be: a home counties mansion with heated, air conditioned outbuildings in which to store your collection of supercars? Or a large portion of Lincolnshire with a ready-made track upon which you can drive them properly whenever you damn well please? OK, it's a long way from Surrey. But that's what the airstrip is for...
Manby Motorplex
Price: £3.5m
Why you should: Your track, your rules
Why you shouldn’t: Unexploded ordnance
Discussion
Sorry to pre-burst any bubbles, but look at the place on a map, and see how many residential areas are nearby.
To make the site viable it'd need to have major redevelopment done, allow for racing, not just "track day experiences" and so on.
Places like Thruxton struggle enough with noise limits, and can only run a few race meets each year. And they are not all that close to as many residential properties.
To make this place worth visiting it'd need a new track layout built with correct safety barriers etc( a few million quid there ), new pits and support buildings ( say a £million or so ), increased parking/facilities etc etc.
Buy it for £3.5m, spend another £10m making it a worthwhile venue, and then get told by the local W.I that their afternoon tea is being disturbed, and they wont allow it go ahead.
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
To make the site viable it'd need to have major redevelopment done, allow for racing, not just "track day experiences" and so on.
Places like Thruxton struggle enough with noise limits, and can only run a few race meets each year. And they are not all that close to as many residential properties.
To make this place worth visiting it'd need a new track layout built with correct safety barriers etc( a few million quid there ), new pits and support buildings ( say a £million or so ), increased parking/facilities etc etc.
Buy it for £3.5m, spend another £10m making it a worthwhile venue, and then get told by the local W.I that their afternoon tea is being disturbed, and they wont allow it go ahead.
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
Skater12 said:
Sorry to pre-burst any bubbles, but look at the place on a map, and see how many residential areas are nearby.
To make the site viable it'd need to have major redevelopment done, allow for racing, not just "track day experiences" and so on.
Places like Thruxton struggle enough with noise limits, and can only run a few race meets each year. And they are not all that close to as many residential properties.
To make this place worth visiting it'd need a new track layout built with correct safety barriers etc( a few million quid there ), new pits and support buildings ( say a £million or so ), increased parking/facilities etc etc.
Buy it for £3.5m, spend another £10m making it a worthwhile venue, and then get told by the local W.I that their afternoon tea is being disturbed, and they wont allow it go ahead.
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
+1, sadly. I think this is going to become farmland or a housing estate.To make the site viable it'd need to have major redevelopment done, allow for racing, not just "track day experiences" and so on.
Places like Thruxton struggle enough with noise limits, and can only run a few race meets each year. And they are not all that close to as many residential properties.
To make this place worth visiting it'd need a new track layout built with correct safety barriers etc( a few million quid there ), new pits and support buildings ( say a £million or so ), increased parking/facilities etc etc.
Buy it for £3.5m, spend another £10m making it a worthwhile venue, and then get told by the local W.I that their afternoon tea is being disturbed, and they wont allow it go ahead.
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
cjb1 said:
i assume you mean sell the land, use the proceeds for alterations and lease the land back from the bloke that purchased it from you?
And maybe when the digging starts you'll find leprechaun gold, or unicorn fossils !Presuming Ed said:
Or 1000 people put in £3500 each.
Then we need to sell the land to pay for the track alterations. Sounds easy
Then we need to sell the land to pay for the track alterations. Sounds easy
The Crack Fox said:
Skater12 said:
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
You'd hope that residents would welcome the employment opportunities, given the depressed nature of the area, and surely it can't be any noisier than when military planes used it ?But.. sadly, you're probably right.
Skater12 said:
Sorry to pre-burst any bubbles, but look at the place on a map, and see how many residential areas are nearby.
To make the site viable it'd need to have major redevelopment done, allow for racing, not just "track day experiences" and so on.
Places like Thruxton struggle enough with noise limits, and can only run a few race meets each year. And they are not all that close to as many residential properties.
To make this place worth visiting it'd need a new track layout built with correct safety barriers etc( a few million quid there ), new pits and support buildings ( say a £million or so ), increased parking/facilities etc etc.
Buy it for £3.5m, spend another £10m making it a worthwhile venue, and then get told by the local W.I that their afternoon tea is being disturbed, and they wont allow it go ahead.
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
Manby has been running motorsport events, large shows and driver training for 30 years, with a generous noise limit, lots of support from the community and the local council (who's offices are about one mile away), and very little noise issues. Also, they’ve had interest from the Minicross Drivers Association to develop extra tarmac and gravel stages on site – at their own cost...To make the site viable it'd need to have major redevelopment done, allow for racing, not just "track day experiences" and so on.
Places like Thruxton struggle enough with noise limits, and can only run a few race meets each year. And they are not all that close to as many residential properties.
To make this place worth visiting it'd need a new track layout built with correct safety barriers etc( a few million quid there ), new pits and support buildings ( say a £million or so ), increased parking/facilities etc etc.
Buy it for £3.5m, spend another £10m making it a worthwhile venue, and then get told by the local W.I that their afternoon tea is being disturbed, and they wont allow it go ahead.
Even with a decent Euromillions win, you still couldn't make it the place you'd want it to be, simple due to the neighbours.
The £3.5m asking price includes over 300 acres of farming land too, with a huge rental income, or which could be sold off separately... so you could just buy the motorsport activities, tarmac roads, rally stages and amazing off road area, for a LOT less and leave the farming to, well, farmers...
It's already a great venue, making a profit as a driver training school and motorsport venue... ready to roll!
Yes, it could be invested in to make it more jushi, but not necessary and certainly not for a cost of £10m...
It needs to survive as a motorsport venue. It's fabulous. As are the courses and events there. Be a crying shame to see it turned back to farming or worse, noddy homes for chavs...
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