These persons seem to think of Speedway like it was Swimming Pool or Tennis Court. Totally ignore, don't or won't understand that Speedway is a team sport and their argument is similar to Saying Arsenal are closing but it does not matter as you can watch Tottenham just up the road. Equally fatuous is to use figures showing low percentages of the population use any facility, same could be said about a theatre, the ice rink or even the football
Good post Rodders - the Tottenham reference and biased ignorant reasoning reminds me of our friend "Old Nutter's" recent objection on the PCC Planning Portal. It's worth a read if anyone hasn't:
This is an additional comment by me in view of the valuable information and visibility of real intentions and lack of local consideration for the future of a massive regional asset that have been exposed during the planning process.
The AEPG document on the PCC planning portal on both planning applications for the EoES (23/00400/OUT and 23/00412/OUT dated 27/11/23 that gives the AEPG rebuttal of the speedway at the EoES is very telling. The obvious anger in the tone of it shows how much AEPG has shown aggressive and negative concern for local wellbeing and how much the fact that they had no concept at all about anything to do with continuation of speedway in their plans all along.
The fact that nobody in the company nor associated consultants even understands the position of speedway in the sporting hierarchy of the Peterborough people nor either the local and national regions is an obvious open personal failure on all of their parts. It shows that there was no intention at all of even considering speedway as a part of the thinking when the planning to use the standard proforma approach to the development planning structure.
That exposed level of incompetence has become personal now. That document has exposed the extent to which they were intent on only considering the standard "cut and paste" development type carbon copy designs that have passed the planning regimes when used by others in the past in the southern elements of the UK. A hollow personal financially-based approach makes it very clear that the sort of activities that have made the EoES so valued by the community were never going to form any part of a structured plan not based on maximizing financial gain.
The combination of the two plans was just another ploy to maximize the apparent value of the land by reducing the very community values that have been a hallmark of the EoES over many years by sowing unnecessary confusion into the planning processes. I am placing this document in it's entirety in both of the relevant planning archives.
In the Speedway Rebuttal, the AEPG approach has been to make a significant point in the low number of times a section of the EoES would be used for speedway. On it's own that simplistic outsider understanding is obvious in every part of the AEPG plan. No
separate legitimate spectator sport can ever hope to get close to making a profit without becoming a part of a shared multi-use volume occupancy.
Even the new Spurs stadium has been designed to take in American Football, Women's Football and huge pop concerts plus more.
Moreover, purveying a wholly destructive plan only allowing one more year of occupancy to anything, including speedway while plans are being processed over several years was always going to make sure that having more than one speedway team riding at the EoES was going to be impossible to justify.
The temporary current lack of speedway in Peterborough is solely down to a misguided non-local development approach and must be considered a major contribution to attempts to avoid the very provisions of the LP30 paragraphs in the Local Plan that were placed
there to to safeguard the future of necessary activities.
Mufti-use sport and entertainment facilities of the kind that Peterborough expect the EoES to provide for wellbeing to the whole region should future-proof the continued community value of the EoES by having a wide range of proven local sports, both inside and outside, for both participating and spectating.
The areas under the grandstands combined with the large existing enclosed concert-hall style facility could be able to house gym-type sporting facilities, squash, badminton, martial arts and so-on. The centre-green of the multi-use stadium could be used for grass-based sports like local school football and hockey championships, the open areas could continue to house high value auctions, animal shows auto-spectaculars and so on. Add that to the fact that the local plan approved a total of 650 houses by including the LP30 sections to make absolutely certain that there were proper large spaces to carry on the EoES legacy of events rather than the bland concrete jungle of houses, a hotel/pub that no brewery will ever want to take on and unimaginative personal pseudo-sports concrete shells that will have no realistic viable future.
These two planning applications are not in accordance with either the substance or vision of the LP provisions and do not represent anything like the sort of provisions that will create a valuable future wellbeing asset from the current wreckage that the EoES has become.
so were only added today 29/4!
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