Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2009 21:16:41 GMT
It appears the fight to get speedway back into Cornwall is far from over despite the latest setback at Bodmin:-
THE search will now begin in earnest to find a new site to bring speedway back to Cornwall for the first time since 2003.
Prospective promoters Ashley Taylor and Grahame Smith were unsuccessful last week in their bid to gain planning permission from North Cornwall District Council for a track at the Bodmin Rugby Club complex.
They have not ruled out the prospect of appealing against that decision, but at the same time they will also try to find another site, with a view to returning the sport to the county in 2010.
"The exercise of putting in this planning application over the last 12 months has rekindled the interest for speedway in Cornwall," said Taylor.
"It finished in October 2003, but it didn't finish due to a lack of support, and evidence of that has been shown during the past year.
"The support is here in the county, Cornwall has a strong interest in motor sports, especially motor cycle sports such as speedway and grasstrack racing, and we have just got to continue our fight. We have to return speedway to Cornwall."
He added: "Finding a site is always difficult. Noise is always the emotive issue, but at least we are never questioned on crowd behaviour. That never comes into it because it is a family sport.
"Ideally we have to search in a very narrow corridor, from coast to coast, St Austell through to Newquay, with a five or six-mile band either side of that.
"That is the natural location for the sport to exist within Cornwall, and we will be trying to identify new sites as quickly as possible.
"The idea now is to get another planning application in by late August or early September 2009, so that we are in a good position to restart speedway in April 2010."
The planning application for Bodmin was heavily criticised by head of development control, Malcolm Price, for containing a lack of information, but it was put together by planning agents Cleave Design, who have previously been successful in gaining planning permission for tracks at Plymouth, Exeter and Weymouth.
Taylor said: "We used a very experienced planning agent who has been successful in gaining planning permission for speedway at other venues.
"We have gone through all the normal channels and produced all of the information that you would normally be expected to supply.
"I am quite happy with the work that has been done by the planning agent and the advice that has been given."
Taylor was full of praise for the 300-plus people who wrote letters of support for the Bodmin planning application.
"I would like to thank the many hundreds of people who have supported the application, from both within Cornwall itself and from outside, and would like to reassure them that the fight to return speedway to Cornwall will continue."
Taken from www.thisiscornwall.co.uk
THE search will now begin in earnest to find a new site to bring speedway back to Cornwall for the first time since 2003.
Prospective promoters Ashley Taylor and Grahame Smith were unsuccessful last week in their bid to gain planning permission from North Cornwall District Council for a track at the Bodmin Rugby Club complex.
They have not ruled out the prospect of appealing against that decision, but at the same time they will also try to find another site, with a view to returning the sport to the county in 2010.
"The exercise of putting in this planning application over the last 12 months has rekindled the interest for speedway in Cornwall," said Taylor.
"It finished in October 2003, but it didn't finish due to a lack of support, and evidence of that has been shown during the past year.
"The support is here in the county, Cornwall has a strong interest in motor sports, especially motor cycle sports such as speedway and grasstrack racing, and we have just got to continue our fight. We have to return speedway to Cornwall."
He added: "Finding a site is always difficult. Noise is always the emotive issue, but at least we are never questioned on crowd behaviour. That never comes into it because it is a family sport.
"Ideally we have to search in a very narrow corridor, from coast to coast, St Austell through to Newquay, with a five or six-mile band either side of that.
"That is the natural location for the sport to exist within Cornwall, and we will be trying to identify new sites as quickly as possible.
"The idea now is to get another planning application in by late August or early September 2009, so that we are in a good position to restart speedway in April 2010."
The planning application for Bodmin was heavily criticised by head of development control, Malcolm Price, for containing a lack of information, but it was put together by planning agents Cleave Design, who have previously been successful in gaining planning permission for tracks at Plymouth, Exeter and Weymouth.
Taylor said: "We used a very experienced planning agent who has been successful in gaining planning permission for speedway at other venues.
"We have gone through all the normal channels and produced all of the information that you would normally be expected to supply.
"I am quite happy with the work that has been done by the planning agent and the advice that has been given."
Taylor was full of praise for the 300-plus people who wrote letters of support for the Bodmin planning application.
"I would like to thank the many hundreds of people who have supported the application, from both within Cornwall itself and from outside, and would like to reassure them that the fight to return speedway to Cornwall will continue."
Taken from www.thisiscornwall.co.uk