Heard a whisper that Bruntingthorpe has been closed for track days due to complaints from local residents.
Find it a bit hard to believe, but has anybody heard anything factual?
Cheers
Martin
I find it hard to believe because its in the middle of absolutely nowhere!
PLus its used as a proving ground for the motor industry, so i doubt they would close it for tracking.
http://www.bruntingthorpe.com/
David
The Sylva track days aren't happening there as they have in previous years due to noise. I've also heard that some of the people that do advanced driver training there have had problems due to noise also...
I can believe it. A solicitor bought a farmhouse next to Darley Moor (its in middle of knowhere) and started taking legal action against the noise.
It now has hardly any sessions for bike testing (3 per year IIRC).
Some folk are shits!
I was there last week. Noise is an issue.
We were asked not to run too close together to reduce levels.
Its true, came out about 2 weeks ago on a couple of threads on Pistonheads, such as
this one
Now thats really suprising! I am very suprised, those who have been there will know what I mean that its in the middle of nowhere, there are only a
few farm houses around, and they are a good distance off IIRC. Sound can carry a long way with the wind though...
David
that happened to our model plane club, we were there for years and then some idiots moved into the houses and started complaining about the noise and
now we have drasticly cut flying hours! why the hell did they move there??? what did the think the windsock was about??? bas$%rds
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Originally posted by flak monkey
Now thats really suprising! I am very suprised, those who have been there will know what I mean that its in the middle of nowhere, there are only a few farm houses around
I suspect local councils are being encouraged to do this sort of thing. I live near Castle Coombe and the councillors were against restrictions, but
the officals made it go through due to noise. The circuit is the second oldest and was an airfield before, but it only takes one enobled person (in
the case of Coombe) to force the law onto a democratically elected body in such a way as to render them usless.
I would turn Bruntingthorpe back into an active Airfield, and then let those who live near an airfield moan. If they did this once the rest would be
thankful to hear cars everyday instead of planes.
as with most things in this country the blair government policy and the people who follow it are turning this country into the green jacket brigade.
health and safety, too loud, too fast too smokey too much alcohol, too much salt, too much fat...........so you cant do
it
makes my fecking blood boil
too many do gooders than doers!!!
Friend was hunting for a house the other year. She found this lovely old house, beautiful. They organised to view it on a bank holiday weekend, execpt
the owners had some prior engagements so they could only view at certain times.
As she told me i told her to go back to the village and some other times, specifically x,y and z. While she was there she might like to take her
fiance 200 yards up the road to mallory park race track.
Amazing how greatful someone could be, they'd been given times when no one would be racing & she loved the place. Went back when i told her
too and she said she hated it. In fact i think the quote was "i can understand why people complain about the noise if they moved in un-aware of
the track"
(fiance enjoyed watching the practice)
if you dont like the noise dont move next to a track..
i would love to get a place over looking the ring 
We (work) have been doing some test work with a bus around bruntingthorpe. I will see what I can find out next time i am up there.
Should be interesting when they start to ground test the engines on the Vulcan being restored to flight this year. When it takes to the skies again,
surely even the locals might be vaguely enthusiastic about that. We can all dream about the fantastic aircraft industry (amongst others) we had before
the Government (with the help of the yanks) completely shafted it
Read up on the TSR2.
Anyway, that noise should blow a few hats off
Cheers,
Dave
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Originally posted by damien
if you dont like the noise dont move next to a track..
i would love to get a place over looking the ring
reminds me of when i dated a london girl born and bred. She came to meet my parents and saw all these lovely sheep in the fields on the journey
up.
She had real difficulty eating the roast lamb dinner that day
People need to learn a degree of tollerance, its just occured to me if you moved next door to a track doing say 50 track days a year and then they
started doing 200 - i think it is fair that someone should be allowed to complain. I'm sure the circuit would start to complain if you started
spraying water into the air that fell onto the track.
I don't think it's the people who voted Labour who are buying farms next to race tracks mate 