Post by admin on Sept 28, 2023 20:24:19 GMT
What a depressing read. But nothing more than you'd expect 
www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/appeal-to-peterborough-city-council-to-help-find-more-time-to-spare-speedway-track-from-developer-4352969
But during an Ask the Leader question and answer session, council leader Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald said that "there was little the council could do despite months of searching for a solution"
That's a bit rich considering that, depending of one's reading of the AEPG Design & Access Statement, Peterborough City Council effectively caused the problem and didn't significantly consider our city, it’s heritage/culture or it’s residents when they concocted the local plan. Yes they put in LP36 & LP30 for, we assume, Peterborough Speedway, but like most ineffective things PCC put in for effect, those policies seem pretty weak and toothless.
"The Showground site was offered to Peterborough City Council to allocate for housing and employment uses, to meet the needs of the city as it continues to grow.
The Peterborough Local Plan was subsequently adopted by the Council in July 2019 with an allocation development at the Showground site.
With the adoption of the Council’s Local Plan coinciding with our (East of England Agricultural Society) own plan to move to a new rural home, there is now an opportunity to deliver something special at the Showground site: not just new homes for Peterborough but a new, unique part of the city with its own sense of place and character, building on the rich legacy of the Society’s five decades there."
PCC could easily have put in greater protections and if you believe that they can't do something now and make it difficult for AEPG then I've some swampland in Florida to sell you!
Why do we need "a new, unique part of the city with its own sense of place and character" when the existing facility already fulfills that criteria and provides something that AEPG's fantasy vision and artist's impressions never will.
www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/appeal-to-peterborough-city-council-to-help-find-more-time-to-spare-speedway-track-from-developer-4352969
But during an Ask the Leader question and answer session, council leader Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald said that "there was little the council could do despite months of searching for a solution"
That's a bit rich considering that, depending of one's reading of the AEPG Design & Access Statement, Peterborough City Council effectively caused the problem and didn't significantly consider our city, it’s heritage/culture or it’s residents when they concocted the local plan. Yes they put in LP36 & LP30 for, we assume, Peterborough Speedway, but like most ineffective things PCC put in for effect, those policies seem pretty weak and toothless.
"The Showground site was offered to Peterborough City Council to allocate for housing and employment uses, to meet the needs of the city as it continues to grow.
The Peterborough Local Plan was subsequently adopted by the Council in July 2019 with an allocation development at the Showground site.
With the adoption of the Council’s Local Plan coinciding with our (East of England Agricultural Society) own plan to move to a new rural home, there is now an opportunity to deliver something special at the Showground site: not just new homes for Peterborough but a new, unique part of the city with its own sense of place and character, building on the rich legacy of the Society’s five decades there."
PCC could easily have put in greater protections and if you believe that they can't do something now and make it difficult for AEPG then I've some swampland in Florida to sell you!
Why do we need "a new, unique part of the city with its own sense of place and character" when the existing facility already fulfills that criteria and provides something that AEPG's fantasy vision and artist's impressions never will.
