Croft to close due to residents and court ruling

[layne]

Have you heard that the courts have found in favour of 3 new (ish) residents and this could cause the Croft circuit to close.

So not only will it bankrupt the circuit and cause unemployment, but it will also set a president for all the other NIMBY’s near the rest of the country’s circuits.

I was at Anderstorp, Sweden, some years ago when this happened during the meeting because of a female MP. Who decided to use her summer home the same weekend as the endurance meeting. It wasn’t until mid-morning of the race that she was overruled and the meeting went ahead, but not until practice, night qualifying and some of the grid qualifying had been missed.

Links below:

http://bikesportnews.com/articles/artic ... E_LEVELS_1

http://bikesportnews.com/articles/artic ... T_DEMISE_1

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/art ... icle=35366

Grrrrrrrr

[Funky]

They have only moved there recently due to a former relative gaining employment at Croft Circuit, who has since left,

So the noise was fine whilst a relative worked there?

They recently moved there and were completely unaware of the noise levels coming from the track? If they weren't informed maybe they should be suing the estate agents, not the track...

Personally I feel in these situations, if the track and noise levels were there before the residents were then the residents have no right to sue.

[TLS-Moose]

It stinks

...... and could well be a ruling that spells the death of places like Castle Combe as well - they've been facing noie issues for years now

[layne]

Absolute disaster

And bo11cks

http://bikesportnews.com/articles/artic ... _CLOSURE_1

[TLS-Moose]

Interesting that the Church does not have to pay for the disruption/noise pollution their bells cause .....

Absolute b*ll*cks - if you don't want to be disturbed by noise, don't buy a house in a noisy location Perhaps I should complain about the A30 / Airport and get them closed I'm happy with the commercial jets, just not the flying club put-put's and that bloody ex-RAF Hunter jet

[adam]

hopefully the local bikers give them stick, dont need prats like that.

[Banditmax]

To be honest who the hell decided to build a house next to a track, thats the person that should be sued. Or if the house was there first that shouldve been the time when compalints were to be made. And buying a house next to a track should in effect deny you any right to complain about noise from it.

[Bladerunner]

Personally I feel in these situations, if the track and noise levels were there before the residents were then the residents have no right to sue.

My thoughts exactly. This sh1t happens all the time, people move next to Westlands in Yeovil then complain about the helicopter noise. I read in the paper last year about some bloke who bought a holiday home in a village in Somerset for the weekends, then attempted to sue the church because of it's bells on a Sunday morning. WTF?

This country is so [Censored] up with political correctness; when it gets to court the judge should ask the retards why they bought a house next to a [Censored] race track, and what exactly did they think was going to be happening there? Then they should be fined for wasting the courts time and for being fucktards.

The only person I can possibly imagine they should be allowed to sue should be the solicitor that carried out their searches before they bought the house for not warning them that they were moving next to a race track and therefore it would be noisey - however, I suspect if the solicitor was any good he probably DID warn them, but they moved there anyway, which is probably why they sued the track and not him. In which case it should never have even been allowed to get as far as court.

W.ANKERS

[Mike Daytona600]

This sort of thing makes me sooo angry. You see simular things everywhere. But what can you do?? (That's what makes it even more iritating )

[Mike Daytona600]

Local bikers could go down near their houses for a bike meet every Sunday morning and don't forget the car boys as well, oh and the trucks.