Saw you had a few acres of land....
Saw you had a few acres of land....
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J4CKO

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Monday 25th July 2011
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Just average arable land but you are not into farming and you dont have palnning permission to turn it into densely packed Executive homes at 1 Million a pop or a retail park, whats to stop you getting a "Service Road" put in that skirts the boundaries of the property so you can drive round your land, perhaps at a decent speed ?

Do you need planning permission for this kind "Service Road" and I am guessing, it being private land you can set your own speed limit ?

What is the liability for anyone who trespasses and perhaps meets with you driving round your land at or below your posted speed limit ?

Basically, can you build a home made racing circuit, just for yourself if you have a few acres of land ?

MagicalTrevor

6,481 posts

258 months

Monday 25th July 2011
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J4CKO said:
Just average arable land but you are not into farming and you dont have palnning permission to turn it into densely packed Executive homes at 1 Million a pop or a retail park, whats to stop you getting a "Service Road" put in that skirts the boundaries of the property so you can drive round your land, perhaps at a decent speed ?

Do you need planning permission for this kind "Service Road" and I am guessing, it being private land you can set your own speed limit ?

What is the liability for anyone who trespasses and perhaps meets with you driving round your land at or below your posted speed limit ?

Basically, can you build a home made racing circuit, just for yourself if you have a few acres of land ?
I suspect you might fall foul of Noise Pollution laws and I bet it's not even as easy as that! Nice idea though smile

J4CKO

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MagicalTrevor said:
I suspect you might fall foul of Noise Pollution laws and I bet it's not even as easy as that! Nice idea though smile
Suppose it depends of how close it is to people likely to care and how much noise you generate, though peiople in this country do move near Air Bases, Airports, Race Circuits and then complain its a bit noisy so an unofficial race cuircuit would result in strongly worded letters to Watchdog or something.

Porkie

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Monday 25th July 2011
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marshalla

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230 months

Monday 25th July 2011
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I know of a place where the owner did exactly that i.e. built a private test track.

The locals have managed to get it closed down by complaining about the noise.

MagicalTrevor

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Monday 25th July 2011
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Porkie said:


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That's pretty much who I had in the back of my mind! laugh

Alicatt1

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224 months

Monday 25th July 2011
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Only thing wrong with putting a perimiter track round my property is that I would need a boat for the bottom end, a peat bog gradually getting wetter and wetter until it is a small loch smile
The last owner of the property lost a bull in there, it slowly disapeared under the peat frown A neighbour lost a tractor just as they were interviewing him about his peat extraction company on Countryfile, the tractor sunk up to the top of the cab in view of the camera just behind the farmer smile

J4CKO

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Monday 25th July 2011
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Must admit, I did think or Mr Caroll myself but really he just created a mud/dustbowl in the middle of a large, but still suburban garden and proceeded to wreck old bangers there with his mates whilst drunk at all hours of the day and night. I am thinking more a private track set well away from immediate neighbours, and, lets be honest it is highly hypothetical, my inlaws have a few acres and we occasionally have a blast round the field in my grandads old Metro 1.1, so far nobody has complained but then the neighbours are a fair distance off, Metros arent very noisy and the airport and M56 generate more noise anyway, in fact passing motorcyclists generate way more noise as does the occasional noisy car.

Sometimes I wonder in this country whether people complain because they can, possibly through jealousy rather than it actually causing any sustained disturbance at a really high volume, between the hours of 7am and 11pm you are allowed to make some noise, be it power tools, music or whatever, I try to keep it to a minimum but sometimes you need to make some sound, just need to do it with consideration.


Porkie

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270 months

Monday 25th July 2011
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J4CKO said:
Sometimes I wonder in this country whether people complain because they can, possibly through jealousy rather than it actually causing any sustained disturbance at a really high volume, between the hours of 7am and 11pm you are allowed to make some noise, be it power tools, music or whatever, I try to keep it to a minimum but sometimes you need to make some sound, just need to do it with consideration.
Exactly... Consideration. My neighbour has none! He was banging on my door this morning at 2.30am!! TWO bloody THIRTY... can you believe that!?!? Luckily for him I was still up playing my drums smile


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