Mallory Park closure?

[MarkJ]

The No Limits Trackdays account on Facebook has just put up a post saying that residents nearby are trying to get Mallory shut and build housing on it. I'm not sure of the details, so maybe someone here knows more?

https://www.facebook.com/events/447047268697423/

https://www.facebook.com/Nolimitstrackdays

[garth]

I know the local residents are a bunch of cunts, have been for ages.

Build a house next to a race track, expect noise. Duh.

[moppy]

What bollocks. That's the closest track to me, so will sign a petition or whatever.

[map]

Via Google then this may be relevant, posted 5/3/13...

[Fowlersrs]

where are they gonna hold triumph live

[Al]

To be fair to the residents who are probably miserable cunts. I don't think Mallory used to noise test properly, when I spoke to the guy doing the noise testing at Snetterton I said I didn't think I'd be able to do a trackday at Mallory as my bike always tests at 101db and the limit is normally 98db at Mallory. He just sort of laughed and said 'nah you'll be fine they don't even bother testing'

That was a few years ago but is probably why the resident are pissed off.
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Taken off track day riders:

Dear Friend of Mallory Park

This mail is to bring you up to date on all activity related to the noise issues at Mallory Park/Kirkby Mallory and ask for your a...ction if you value the continued operation of the circuit. I will keep this as brief and to the point as possible - although there is a lot to go through.

1: A small group of Friends and circuit management met on 13th December after an open invite (six attendees in total). The discussion was wide ranging and included the agreement Mallory came to with Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council on 2013 operation in November that was then subsequently rejected by the Liaison Group on behalf of the residents. The Council then refused to implement the November agreement as it did not have the support of the Liaison Group.

It is our understanding that this proposal was not put to the Kirkby Mallory residents en masse by the Liaison Group.

The abridged highlights of the November 2012 proposed agreement with the Council are:
The cessation of all motocross activity
Agreement to spend £100,000+ on the erection of minimum of 130m of acoustic fencing to reduce noise at various points on the circuit - subject to planning permission
Installation of noise monitoring systems to be put in place
Agreement to limit use of the Hairpin section of track on quiet days
10 x 2-day weekend events allowed per year
18 Saturdays per year at 98dba, no more than two of these per calendar month
40 race days per year
Saturday/Sunday quiet day agreed to 45-55dba
Weekday use - 3 per week, subject to ACU 105db and MSA 108dba levels
Two quiet weekdays per week agreed at 45-55dba
Special events e.g. Festival of 1000 Bikes require noise management plan to be approved and 2 compensatory No Use days the weekend following or preceding
An annual calendar of events to be agreed with HBBC and published on its website.
5-year review of new agreement or when requested by HBBC or Mallory Park.
Mallory Park's interpretation of this is that a max usage per year by the circuit of 217 days, but due to the noted restraints and seasonality of the circuit activity, expectations are at approximately 160-days use per year - all with new noise reduction measures implemented (Background is that the circuit has been operating for 28-years since the 1985 agreement with anywhere between 160-220 days used per year at 98dba noise level or above). This November 2012 proposed agreement represents a 20% reduction on activity with increased noise control/reduction measures on recent activity.

Mallory Park is currently operating to this November 2012 agreement for 2013 and this is our favoured way forward if possible as it is financially viable.

2: Following the Council's decision not to implement the November 2012 proposed agreement, Mallory Park then spoke directly to Garry Ball and the Liaison Group with the aim of coming to an agreement together with the residents and then presenting a untied front to the Council.

We met at Garry's home on 23rd January and in Mallory Park's interpretation the discussion was generally positive and there appeared to be a willingness to negotiate and come to an agreed way forward.

After this a number of communications went back and forth from both sides suggesting possible compromise operational levels. The basics of this discussion were:
The Liaison Group offered guidance advice on what it thought would be acceptable and would recommend or put to residents
After further clarification of the 1985 agreement and note of hard attitudes in the village, Garry advised that the responsibility to act now lies with the Council. Mallory agrees the Council is key to moving forward with a negotiated solution
The abridged details (in Mallory's opinion) of discussions with Garry and the Liaison Committee included:
Mallory requested a special permit for the Festival of 1000 Bikes to be un-silenced due to the nature of older machines. There appeared to be willingness to negotiate to come to a solution here
Mallory suggested No Use days be re-classified as Non Motorsport and a DB level applied at 65db (normal road silenced car is rated at 80db). Garry indicated if residents cannot hear the activity then no problem
Garry had proposed an equal number of noisy/no use weekend days per four-week cycle. Effectively out of 16 days, 8 for use and 8 non use. Mallory requested this to change to 12 days use out of every 16 with an emphasis on the summer months due to seasonality. Garry then suggested 26x 2-day weekend usage as a compromise. Mallory Park is broadly agreeable to this
Liaison Group has no issue with Wednesday test days
Despite running at ACU/MSA noise levels for three weekdays for the last 28-years, the Council has now interpreted that noise levels must be 45db-55db. This is a significant change from previous understanding and the Liaison Group is supporting this interpretation. If applied, this is a significant threat to the operation of the circuit
Mallory requested the Windmill Field be used for a grass track demonstration during the Festival of 1000 Bikes and the rest of the year it would be for parking and camping only. Garry asked if Mallory could use the old moto cross track instead. This could not work as not flat enough to allow grass track riding
A full published calendar was agreed
No drifting at all at the circuit was agreed
Garry requires any new agreement to be enforced in law. Mallory is agreeable to this.
It is Mallory's opinion that the above discussions were productive but the onus for agreement has now moved to the Council rather than with the Liaison Group. It is residents' influence on the Council that will assist with further negotiations and solutions.

3: The Council has now served legal proceedings against Mallory Park for five breeches of the 1985 agreement from 2012. It has also indicated that mid-week the circuit can only operate on a Wednesday at noisy levels. It will enforce all positions from 1st April 2013.

4: Jason Newbury from the Parish Council met with John Ward and myself on 18th February to try and determine Mallory Park's side of the story. We agreed to share what we could with him so that the Parish Council could display a balanced view.

5: On the same evening a letter from the Liaison Group was distributed to the village, provoking a vocal response from pro-circuit residents.

6: Moving forward

BARC is now taking legal advice on the court summons by the Council. I can say nothing more at this time as this is a very complex area of law.

It is clear that the Council has heard little support from residents supporting the continued operation of the circuit.

The circuit remains committed to working with residents and the Council in an attempt to remain financially viable and operational. It is prepared to negotiate as required so that all parties can move forward with confidence.

7: MALLORY PARK KINDLY REQUESTS

A: If you wish the circuit to continue operating, then please write to Steve Atkinson at Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. He needs to know that there are residents that support the circuit. To help structure your communication to him, please consider the following discussion points.

B: Would you be agreeable to the operational levels mentioned in point 1 above? If yes, please tell him so.

C: If you are not agreeable to the above point 1 would you be supportive to a cessation of HBBC legal action and a short time-frame of negotiations to take place with a view to reaching a compromise solution that will allow the circuit to continue operating?

D: We request that you speak with your neighbours and ask them to write to the Council as well, based on the above A-C points.

The address to direct all correspondence is:

Steve.Atkinson@hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk

Or

Steve Atkinson
Council Offices
Argents Mead
Hinckley
Leicestershire
LE10 1BZ

If possible, so we can gauge residents' opinion, please copy your mails to Mallory Park at jmpr35@gmail.com.

I am available at any time to discuss the above or any other circuit based issue. I do hope that you can spare the time to write to Steve Atkinson and greatly appreciate your efforts to support the circuit. Mallory Park needs all the friends it can get in the village right now.

Thanks and hopefully speak soon.

Jason McClean
07734-113554
jmpr35@gmail.com

Mallory Park, the Friendly Circuit, is situated in the heart of the midlands in Leicestershire just off the A47 between Leicester and Hinckley and easily accessible from the M1, M69 or M6. For further directions, please visit www.mallorypark.co.uk.




We are being urged to email Steve.Atkinson@hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk with your opinion on the matter (keeping it clean and polite) and I emailed myself yesterday. I think the more people we can get to voice their opinions the better!


This is also taken from the no limits page on facebook:

It's just been officially confirmed that the opposing residents and council liaison committee have just cancelled the public meeting planned for tomorrow.
It may just be a stay of execution but as it stands, the battle has been won but the war is far from over!
I can say the circuit does not want to sell. In fact there grateful for our support and hope we will continue emailing the council opposing any proposed plans that is still pending. We have been in contact with the local residents support committee against the plans. We thank them for there continued support. Also a huge thank you to all you guys and girls out there that has got involved with this. We also ask anybody who has not emailed yet to consider spending a few moments to email there opposition to any plans that effectively makes the track unable to operate with such restrictive conditions.

Please email steve.atkinson@hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk with your opposition to the effective circuit closure BUT Please keep it polite.

(note) you will get a genetic email response stating "there not planning on forcing the track closure" However pending restrictive measures renders the track unsuitable for motorsports so its a game of words.
Thank you all.
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[Ed Case]

Mallory Park's been going for years and the people ranting for its closure are the same ones who were aware of the nuisance (?) value and the noise implications before they bought their property so why the Hell did they buy there in the first place knowing it ?.
As an aside I attended a Laverda Club's track day there some years ago when a mate rode there on his 500 Montjuic which he used on a regular basis and it failed the noise test, far too loud, so he turned around and rode it straight home. Not too loud for the road but far too loud for a racetrack.

[radicalrabit]

The circuit started life Royal Air Force Station Kirkby Mallory, a standby landing ground (SLG) during WWII and closed in 1947. It then became a pony trotting circuit in the late 1940s, which defined the outline of the oval track still in use today. After the financial collapse of the equestrian club responsible for the circuit, the track was hired by various motorcycle clubs for grass track motorcycle and motorcycle sidecar racing. The circuit was converted to a metalled, road racing venue following the purchase of the site by Clive Wormleighton in 1955.

Throughout the Sixties and Seventies, the circuit hosted almost every major British car and bike championship. Famously the Bay City Rollers tartan army played a concert during a BBC-organised 'Fun Day' on 18 May 1975, on a stage specifically constructed in the middle of the lake.

It has a long standing history of being a noisy environment and it seems that residents who have lived close to it for generations are not the ones complaining.

It would be a disgrace if NIMBY mentality closed this circuit which, after all, attracts users from pretty well most parts of the country.

The detrimental effect of the alternative to the track would surely be to replace controlled noise with the hullablloo of a long term building site and traffic congestion and traffic pollution for ever.

The actual social nature of the area would be ruined and its entire character changed.

Surely the government local or otherwise would not want to see the long term environmental damage caused by the alternative.

Reducing the noise levels to a point where racing and motorsport can not flourish is the same as forcing it to close.

Though I have never been to Mallory myself, I support the circuit in all its facets and the local MP really ought to be supporting it as well.

I really cant imagine an airport being forced to close because people have built their homes too close to the operational areas of flight paths.

There is already a contract of sorts in place, being the previous agreement, and unless that agreement has been breached by either party ....it ought to stand .
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[whitedevil]

save mallory park e-petition
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[Im-a-Ridah]

If the track was there first the resident should never have moved there. It's like moving next to an A road and complaining about the speed of the cars. All such complaints should be thrown out of court.

[Matt B]

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[Sable]

It is usually 10,000 sigs to get something discussed. At least it has been with the Badger Cull and #Alfieslaw (pet abuse).

[Matt B]

https://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/how-it-works

"If you collect 100,000 signatures, your e-petition is eligible to be debated in the House of Commons

The e-petitions House of Commons Backbench Business Committee receives notification from the Leader of the House once an e-petition has 100,000 signatures. The Backbench Business Committee meets weekly when the House of Commons is sitting to hear representations from MPs for debates in backbench time. The Committee can consider any subject for debate, including those raised in e-petitions or national campaigns but an MP must make the case for their consideration.
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[talon]

The meeting was today, looks like its near enough a dead cert to be closed.

I hate this country!

[garth]

[talon]

No problem

https://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Racing-circuit-consider-future-council-vote/story-19508106-detail/story.html#axzz2Ym2QFKok

[bladerunner]

I'm booked in at the Chris walker race school based at Malory next Tuesday's meet and am looking forward to it. Sometimes I'm a little disappointed at the local outrage when people who buy a house next to a long standing race track and complain about the noise....I mean live on the coast and complain about the noise of the incoming tide Ffs why don't. You? I live on the isle of anglesey. We have the raf fast jet training ground near by and ty croes race track near by and I enjoy the sound of a euro fighter hitting the sound barrier 5 miles off the coast....it's a privelage to hear a military fighter jet giving it some at 700 mph plus and knowing they are there to help defend the land I live on..... Race tracks like Malory are the same but much much lower noise restrictions and only operate in daylight hours! Shame on them!
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[Sload]

Hold up a second. Forgetting the locals and nimbyism, did Mallory break it's agreement in the first place?
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