Track activity restricted after ONE complaint??

[aka_kerrly]

hidetheelephants said:

Hopefully if they succeed the stadium will be bulldozed for housing and a high density estate built that will be filled with such scum and villainy that their house price plummets.

Don't forget a large 24hour supermarket to.

I find cases like this so depressing, Castle Combe also has to deal with these numpties who move from the cities to a quiet bit of the Cotswolds and then moan they have moved within a couple of miles of a track or the local air strip at Kemble.

I swear some people are simply put on this planet to moan.

[fc72]

There has been a some serious discussions on this on various oval sites, plus on rods and sods, hopefully a link soon, but this has been on going for a fair time. If it sets a precedent a lot more venues could suffer.

So any body involved with motor sport ,outdoor music , steam fairs the list is endless.

I live 400 YDs from a 900 year old church , the bells are a pain every sunday at 9.00 PM but I knew it was there.

[Andy 308GTB]

fc72 said:

I live 400 YDs from a 900 year old church , the bells are a pain every sunday at 9.00 PM but I knew it was there.

And this is the exact point Steffan and Piglet are making:

Piglet said:

Coming to a nuisance is not a defence to the nuisance, hasn't been since eighteen hundred and something so the fact that the nuisance was already happening does not allow it to continue. You might think that's barking mad but that is very established law and trying to overturn that is a huge and very expensive ask.

The fact that those Church bells have been rung every Sunday for the last 900 years but you only moved in last week. You can still claim they are a nuisance and potentially get them stopped.

[Steffan]

Andy 308GTB said:

fc72 said:

I live 400 YDs from a 900 year old church , the bells are a pain every sunday at 9.00 PM but I knew it was there.

And this is the exact point Steffan and Piglet are making:

Piglet said:

Coming to a nuisance is not a defence to the nuisance, hasn't been since eighteen hundred and something so the fact that the nuisance was already happening does not allow it to continue. You might think that's barking mad but that is very established law and trying to overturn that is a huge and very expensive ask.

The fact that those Church bells have been rung every Sunday for the last 900 years but you only moved in last week. You can still claim they are a nuisance and potentially get them stopped.

Indeed. It remains to be seen where this litigation ends but what is certain is that noisy nuisances from circuits and tracks are going to be challenged by wealthy neighbours. In consequence those circuits and tracks are going to be singularly interested in preventing excessive noise at their venues. As most users of those facilities will be aware, virtually all of the tracks nowadays treat noise levels most seriously.

[Magog]

I suspect this is not a straightforward case, according to Wikipedia, Mildenhall stadium was founded by Terry Waters, who owned the land that the stadium is on, The same Councillor Terry Waters presumably who faced a standards committee investigation into his behaviour with regards to a planning application by his son James Waters...

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Newmarket/Councill...

presumably the James Waters who previously owned the stadium...

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Newmarket/20k-stad...

and is now the elected leader of Forest Heath district council...

http://www.forest-heath.gov.uk/councillors/10/jame...

[anonymous-user]

radical78 said:

if the stadium gets closed the house goes up in value . thats always whats behind these complaints

It would have to go up an awful lot to make that worthwhile if I am reading that report correctly:

"Not only is the future of racing at the venue under threat due to limits being placed on the noise allowed but the promoters are also facing a six-figure legal bill.

As well as their own fees they are facing the prospect of paying 60% of their opponents’ costs - which could be more than £600,000."

At best that indicates that this will have cost the complainants £240K; at worst maybe £400K.

You'd be lucky to find a house in Mildenhall worth that much, let alone see it as an increase!