mallory park gone into administration today

[Tim Ellershaw]

I bet the landowners will be busy banging in building applications now to various parties to realise the asset value of what is at the moment an unusable item.

 

 

 

From what I've heard, I don't think so. The landlord is a property company that holds a couple of tracks and the director is an 80+ year old former GT racing driver and loves motorsport.

 

Depending who you believe, the landlords have either been putting the rent up causing the visious circle of higher rent requires more track running days, or the MPML/BARC lawyers didn't read the rental agreement.

 

 

 

Tim.

[Tim Ellershaw]

another pile of bulls*** where new folk moving near a circuit then complaining about noise puts pay to the circuit , its a load of crap they know where they are moving and what goes on so they should in no way be allowed to complain or cause this situation , its about time the courts grew some balls and used common sense

 

 

Unfortunately not as simple as that. There has been an agreed limit in place since 1985 that gives the operators ( I believe ) 2 noisy days, 3 quiet running days, and 2 days closed per week. It seems that they have been slowly exceeding it.

 

The circuit has been used more and more over the last few years and (anecdotally) the level of the noise has got louder. There have been all sorts of accusations of incompetence and wrong doing between MPML, the Council and the villagers. Slanging matches in the media and on social media. It has turned disappointingly ugly so some of the basic facts are lost in the bitterness and backbiting.

I have friends that live in the village and others who have businesses located in the workshops at Mallory. They have lived there for as long as I can remember, so are not new-to-the-area-nimbys, and some of them are proper petrol-heads too, but even they have started to question how the track is being used. My brother (car lover and former Mallory/BARC marshal ) lives in the next village a couple of miles away. He has always quite liked the sound of the track in the distance, and can usually tell you what is racing just from the sound, but he has acknowledged that the sound "is different" these days. Louder : maybe? higher pitch : perhaps? More annoying: possibly ?

IMHO, in the past when Mallory ran a few days over it's agreed limit for "noisy days" nobody noticed. I bet nobody even counted. Traffic was never a big problem and everything seemed to run happily. But when they started getting louder, more frequent and later at night, someone asked the inevitable question and opened the can of worms. To keep the company in the black MPML ran more events, and more varied events. I have heard that for some residents the last straw was a recent event ( drift day ??) that went on late into the night and gridlocked the village with visitors doing doughnuts and p'ing about on the public roads.

 

 

The bottom line : a sad day when a track I grew up with is closing, but they were not playing by the rules.

 

 

Tim

[Meakin]

Still something fishy going on. Landowner buys 16 acres to extend or move the course yet no deal to be struck? AFAIK the main noise was the pa system which they always turned off at the appropriate time.

I looked into buying s house at Kirkby mallory the estate agent explained there was a race track (ie we knew it was there) and my wife and I had no doubt that as a company it would do its best to make money (therefore noise would only get worse). Certainly if we had gone ahead and bought the house we would not then try and get the track closed. If you didn't like it move. Or at least negotiate.

Yes the company has done some naughties but a lot less than the big supermarkets and similar large companies.

Hopefully it will change hands to another racing company but I'm not convinced that this isn't some deal going on to get the land for building. Certainly there is no large supermarket nearby and Barwell is expanding.

I'm think the residents may regret the course of action taken. I'm certain that with different negotiations there could have been an amicable solution. Such as soundproofed boards at the hairpin like they have on motorways

Just my 2p worth.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

There is a petition here:- http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/46739

 

I and my Good Lady have signed it for what good it may do.

[Meakin]

Signed already hit 10000 hopefully it will hit 100000 as it has to be discussed in government then.

May still save it

[mark.anson]

The villagers will regret it when the circuit closes and the local travelling gentlemen decide to take advantage and set up camp while the villagers fight the Tesco supermarket planning application!

That will give them something to complain about.

[WestyNottm]

Just signed the petition - 36,540 signatures and counting....