introduce mandatory noise complaint waiver petition

[eggchaser1987]

I very rarely put up these but thaught it may be of interest.

introduce mandatory noise complaint waiver for anyone who buys or rents a property close to motorsport venue.

https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petit...

[coppice]

Sorry but idiotically naive petitions like this(we had an even dafter one recently ) are so simplistic as to be an utter waste of time; nobody would take this sort of plea seriously . Carte blanche for race tracks (and if them , why not everything else?)to make as much noise whenever they want ? I don't think so. Will the race track in question pay the many millions of compensation due to owners whose property is either unsellable or hugely devalued ? Better advice would be to get every circuit owner to sign an undertaking saying they will comply with their planning permissions....

And judging by the utterly pathetic attendance at most live motor sport (GP, Superbikes and BTCC excepted)our time would be better spent encouraging people actually to support their local venue. I live 20 miles from a circuit and attend 90% of meetings - at nearly all of them the drivers and their family out number the crowd

[GravelBen]

coppice said:

Will the race track in question pay the many millions of compensation due to owners whose property is either unsellable or hugely devalued?

Do you mean the owners/developers who buy land cheap because its beside a race track (which has been there for decades) and then complain about the noise to try and get it shut down to increase the value of their land?

[Dare2Fail]

GravelBen said:

Do you mean the owners/developers who buy land cheap because its beside a race track (which has been there for decades) and then complain about the noise to try and get it shut down to increase the value of their land?

I suspect that the point he is getting at is the surrounding land is valued based on the track operating within the planning permissions/noise restrictions that are in place. If you then give carte blanche for the track to operate outside said rules it will then in turn devalue the surrounding land further. This isn't fair on the owners of the land.

Most instances of noise complaints seem to be where the circuits start to take the piss and break the rules. Unfortunately they then spin the story so that it comes across as "new people move in and complain about the noise" when that clearly isn't the case (Mallory Park is a perfect example).

I'd happily support petitions if they could back up their claims of injustice with examples showing where it has actually happened in the way they claim. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) they rarely manage it.

[coppice]

GravelBen said:

Do you mean the owners/developers who buy land cheap because its beside a race track (which has been there for decades) and then complain about the noise to try and get it shut down to increase the value of their land?

It's a popular piece of villainy- whether it is always based in fact is another question. Certainly the Mallory thing was spun as newcomers etc - until it turned out the circuit was in repeated breach of planning . Which sort of isn't optional...

Regardless - the petition is what I might expect from a ten year old and does the motor sport community no favours at all.

[GravelBen]

Fair point, the petition wording is indeed comically vague.

I'm sure it isn't always the case, but I can think of at least one race track and one speedway here that had stricter limits (noise and operating hours) imposed by local councils after new neighbours complained that the existing limits were too lenient - IIRC a speculative property developer tried to get the speedway shut down completely but fortunately failed.