I don't know if people are aware, but Castle Combe is under threat due to MORONS lobbying with regard to noise. They shouldn't live by a god damn race track and expect there to not be noise??!!!

There is a petition online, please sign it: http://www.petitiononline.com/306007/

They don't want use to drive performance cars on the road, yet they try and get the tracks closed where we can drive them!!

Andy

 

If they lived there before the track was built then fine, they might have grounds to complain. If they've moved there since it was built then they only have themselves to blame and should shut the **** up.

 

More info here http://www.racecar.co.uk/cc/story.asp?ArticleID=87

 

Cardigan wearing tree huggers

 

Signed it Please can everyone make an effort to do so, remember if tracks like this start to close there will be no Japfest, Rallyday, etc. to attend.

 

Bastids!!! Castle combe is a great circuit and besides that........

WHERE ARE WE GONNA HAVE JAPFEST!!!

 

Signed

 

best they sell there houses to me and move away from the noise!! id love to live there. Signed it

 

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There is always people like this.

Part of our business is building developments. We own land, have planning permission to build on.

Most cases Land we have owned for 10 to 20 years, we have applied and been granted planning permission well in advance for residential medium to large luxuary homes. No complaints.

Funny though, when we start to show signs of building there (can be up to 3-5years). Complaints come flooding in. And the daft thing is in many cases the nearby residents who are complaining bought the poperty AFTER planning permssion was granted . And under law they HAVE TO KNOW that there is going to be new housing built on adjacent land.

They accept this, move in (on one deveolpment all adjacent housing was only 1 to 2 years old...planning was given 5 years before hand so everybody knew what was being built). Then when building starts they do everything in their power to undermine our company from protests to petetions, even to go as low as calling health and safety at the sight of 2pence piece being dropped on the floor (and H&S are bad enough and cost us £££££s as it is). Bizzarly, in some case people who complain live absolutely nowhere near the site so its impossible for them to be affected by it.

Guess who these type of people are? They usually fall in two catorgories:

Housewives with kids or Retired people. Either way they are busy bodies with nothing better to do than find and blame something on someone else whe it its entirely their own fault for ignoring it when they moved in their own brand new property. Try talking to these people and there is no reasoning or compromises, they won't accept anything you offer. They just don't like their view from the window to be shadowed by another house (even though they KNEW it would be), and the intermittant noise of a JCB and other plant ( all brand new and complies to the new "quiet site" noise regulations of 80dba@1m IIRC).


I suspect its the same case for castle combe...it has been there for over 50 years, so people complaining HAVE to be people who have moved in to the area since and knew it was there before moving. They are small minded people who have nothing better to do than continually blame things around them and not themselves for not realising what was there (or going to be) when they moved in - which their solicitor would have made very clear upon purchase.

Apologies for the rant...it does tread in lines rather to close me personally which jepdodise my job and almost 100 others, purely to idiots like these.

 

I have signed the petition and posted it up on SIDC also

 

Signed

 

signed it also. A similar order was placed in southend last year where they closed down a whole section of the seafront to stop the noise pollution which, apparently, was causing some residents - who live nearly 1000 yards away some discomfort!

Only problem was that the only route you could take off of the seafront, and the recommended police diversion took you right past these complaining old g!ts houses - and they had nearly 1000+ cars ragging it past their front windows every saturday night!

Point of what I'm saying is some people just complain for complainings sake - and don't think about the consequences of what might happen if a circuit like castle coombe is closed!

 

A definate serves-them-right

 

Consider it done

 

just signed the petition, flaming dcik heads this happened at croft many times and the circuit won the day to those who are fighting it good luck

mickyjeff

 

Signed.

 

Signed - long live Castle Combe race circuit!!

 

And I thought that Castle Coombe like most other such sites was an airfield before it became a track, and would have had significant noise dating back to 1940 or before. So the site has had noise for 65 years....

 

I've signed it.

 

Andy,
They cant get Speed Camera Revenue if we speed on the Track and go slow on the Road
Perhaps if Castle Coombe was to allow a Gatso on Camp Corner they will be happier

Tony

 

Signed it.

 

Apparently its from new residents who've just moved from Bedford.

 

done

 

signed twice, one for me and one for the wife.
well if those grumpy sods want they can swop houses if they want, i dont mind the noise!! not far to go for the jap fest

 

Signed it ,but they could at least spell the petition correctly, nothing like making car enthusiasts look like illiterate planks

 

Signed it. Typical NIMBY's. Prime example in my area recently - they are reopening a mothballed railway and a lot of local residents objected . Look, guys, when you bought your house did you not notice a railway line - rails, ballast, bridges, etcetera, at the bottom (literally) of your garden

Thick as mince, some people

 

Signed and commented on

 

All signed up,

I used to live near castle combe before moving to gods country, used to hear the cars about 5 times a year, sounded no different to someone next door mowing the lawn.

It's been a race track for as long as my old man can remember, he used to race go-karts there in the 60's/70's. sounds to me like the people complaining should be sueing there solicitor.