Ray Stadia

I watched the GP on Sunday and it didn't stop me enjoying the event. Today a radio station, played the noise of a 2014 engine noise against a 2012 race, for me the 2014 sounded better, less revs and more exhaust burble!

And Lydd Speedway, which is in the same county. I hope Iwade returns.

I know I am going to be shot down in flames, but I did wonder whether the opening of Sittingbourne Speedway, may cause problems for Iwade. Seems a bit of a coincidence to me, although, common sense also says, why should it cause problems?

Good points, I have to admit.

I think we are building a picture!

You are not Mr Coventry's son by any chance, are you wrench?

Looks like it will be a room for 3 then!

Get a room!

What colour is the scarf?

What the above suggests, even though you have planning permission, you still need to be reasonable. Or in other words, use common sense. Perhaps when they grant planning permission, this is how they expect people to behave. Mr Coventry obviously believes he has acted reasonably.

If that is true, how was it the supreme court found in favour of the couple? Surely being granted permission to make noise, doesn't mean you can do it 24/7? Surely when permission is granted, certain boundaries are put in place? For the court to have found in favour of the couple, I would suggest the boundaries were 'stepped over'.

At the end of the day, Mr Coventry and the couple had a grievance. It is a pity it had to go to court and couldn't have been settled long before going down that route. Both sides are probably to blame for that. I would imagine and perhaps this is a sexist comment, the lady bent the ear of her male partner and it escalated from there! I think us men have all probably been there at some time!

Why not do the clearing up the following day? Say, from 9 am? All that is needed is a bit of common sense. I have no idea who Mr Coventry is, but is he the kind of person who thinks of others or just thinks about himself? Just asking, as I haven't a clue, however, starting to build a mental picture! Interesting to note, during the second world war, some locals used to complain about the bombers taking off from their air bases. People complaining about noise and being 'unreasonable' is nothing new.

So making noise at 3 am in the morning is reasonable stadium activity? The Ipswich football ground is surrounded by housing and flats etc. If the blues kicked a game off at 1 am, those dwellers would be well hacked off! And so they should, that is not reasonable and not what you would expect a football stadium to do. Likewise, a stadium running bangers, still clearing the debris and grading the speedway track at 3 am is also unreasonable.

Sounds like it's the stocks/bangers are possibly the issue, but as Gustix has pointed out, Mr Coventry is a stocks/bangers man. Difficult one. I suppose that is why many stocks/banger meetings are run during the day at weekends.

Sure, but would you expect there to be noise from the stadium at 3 am? I wouldn't. I wouldn't even be making investigations whether there was noise at 3 am, I would assume the operators had common sense to wrap things up at around 11.00 pm.

Not casting aspersions, just suggesting that newspaper stories often don't reflect the facts. I have no doubt you have read an article or many articles possibly saying 'Muslims get church bells silenced', but is that really a true account of the situation? Similarly, with the Mildenhall situation, I feel there are things we haven't been told.

The silencing of the church bells is for them to stop between 11 pm and 7 am, which is sort of fair. However, due to fact they are activated automatically, they can't be switched off between that time. Therefore, it is really a technical issue. The other complaint about the church worshippers playing loud music during sermons is not necessarily the guy being difficult because he is a Muslim, it might be flipping loud! All they need to do is keep the noise down a bit. What is interesting, is I think there is a missing part to the Mildenhall story. I wonder if the supreme court are not expecting the track to stop it's activities, but to reduce them. Which may not suit Mr Coventry if he needs to run all the activities to make money. Just being devils advocate.

Perhaps it's a church, near Mildenhall Stadium?

With respect, that sounds like a myth to me rather than fact. Probably put about by UKIP!

William Hague?

Is that the group of MP's headed up by George Galloway, who will not only stand in the corner of Odsal, apparently not his constituency, but will also stand in the corner of Mildenhall! (also not his constituency, allegedly).

Regarding the top line Gustix, I was merely giving an opinion as to why the couple may have a case in the eyes of the supreme court. i.e. when they moved in, activity was low, but then got stepped up. From the couples point of view, they say, moved in when speedway was run on a Sunday afternoon, they could cope with that, then, say stocks start on say a Friday night, which were not there previously. Possibly, the couple would have a case. It's like moving next to a pub and they have live music every Friday night, have done for donkeys years. Manager decides to have live music on Sunday nights as well, those in the area would probably have a case to get, at least, the Sunday live music stopped.

That would be a good idea. An area that is ring fenced and protected from future closure due to complaints. That would also possibly mean, more promoters coming forward to promote, rather than living in fear that one day their investment could have the rug taken away. On the other hand, perhaps some promoters take on a stadium/buy land, in the hope the land will be valuable allowing them to cash in? As with all things, 2 schools of thought! But for the promoter who truly loves his sport, would be a great idea!

That could be more dangerous for speedway. If you have permission to run a motor sport and you have houses nearby, you should be doing as much as you can to keep them reasonably happy, but it would be dangerous to go door knocking and saying 'would you like to see the speedway stop', the majority, in my opinion would say yes. However, the majority will tolerate it, unless the stadium changes something to pee them off and then the stadium ignores the complaints. I wonder how many promoters are equipped to be diplomatic? From what I have heard on the forum, many are not diplomatic with the paying fans, so what chance a few complainers?