I personally wouldnt buy a house next to railway lines or an airport... but If I did I wouldnt complain like fuck when I realised its noisy
I have fond memories of watching club racing there in the late 1970s and early '80's, you knew were nearly there when could smell the Castrol R in the air!
they should sell it lock stock to housing or retail developers. stick 5000 new social housing homes on there. that will please the existing residents...
I'm told that funds were made available to alter the track, moving it further away from the nearest residents, but the management team spunked it on other stuff. That won't have helped their cause at all. I started a similar thread on another forum which has members with close ties to Mallory, and they all said, to a man, that the management company are entirely to blame for the situation that Mallory Park now finds itself in. That's even sadder than losing the circuit to property developers.
Not wishing to offend anyone here but.....if you take the attitude that's its a race track so will always be noisy then its inevitable we will end up with no tracks to use. You have to work with the local residents or they take umbrage and want to close the place down as has happened here. You cannot allow track owners to use the place as they please. No business of any type is allowed to operate under those rules when noise and pollution are a product of what that business does.
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