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Neither the proposed (alleged) new site at Studley Grange (Wilts Council) nor the Abbey Stadium (Swindon Council) have had their planning applications decided upon yet.

DPP reaching for the Abbey Stadium playbook.

No problem at all. Hopefully someone can use the data and present it in a far more accessible and intuitive way.

Granted. It was setup in the quickest and cheapest way we could, just to get the data available - as nothing existed at the time. It would be much better presented in a database format with a pretty front end UI, but that takes time, money and effort that I can't give it.

https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/ Season averages for all riders who have ridden in top 2 leagues are here...

https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/board/1/results

Hi. Who do you have in mind? The group have been in contact with people from Save Coventry since day one, the guys involved in getting Oxford back, as well as the BSPL / Phil Morris via Brian Connolly, with whom they are working very closely.

Appreciate that, Ian. The 'call to action' has also been across Facebook groups and in the local press to be fair to the group.

Closure date for online submissions was yesterday, not "some time ago" People can still submit comments via email. In truth, the Swindon and general speedway public response to variius things recently has been pretty likewarm. A call by the group for donations, the response to the Oxford 4TT and volime of response to the Abbey planning have all been disappointing.

https://www.swindon-needs-speedway.com/abbey-stadium-planning-applications

Great news to see both planning applications being rejected this morning. Back to square one for the developers. They 2 parties involved in the application have had a major fallout over the viability of the land sale price and S106. One refused to sign it and 3 deadlines passed. The Showground lives on!

Something with response advice will be out this coming week apparently. The general public's reponse to the whole situation has been bizarre The Swindon Needs Speedway group had only a small turn-out when presenting their petition to Council last year (2,300 names but only about a dozen turned up at the Counci), a recent call for funding help saw only a few donate and now some are moaning about the line-up in the Oxford 4TT this week! Social media has over 2,000 followers, but it seems many want speedway back as long as they don't have to do anything themselves to make it happen!

Some concerning Matt Ford comments in today's Speedway Star about stadium development. Be afraid, be very afraid!

Speedway Star reports that Arthur Payne recently passed away.

Planning apps are now in for the Abbey to be demolished. https://pa.swindon.gov.uk/publicaccess/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=T2SDBXPTIS200&activeTab=summary https://pa.swindon.gov.uk/publicaccess/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=T2SL27PTISU00&activeTab=summary

https://www.swindon-needs-speedway.com/studley-grange-planning-application

Not having a pop at you, just saying it's way wide of the mark. The planning app for Studley Grange is in the consultation phase until next Thursday. There are currently a LOT of objections.

That's nonsense.

Lots of deckchair shuffling on here. If the BSPL don't change the fundamental approach to where and how meetings are staged plenty more tracks will eventually fall victim to the land value, greedy developer disease.

Geoff Maloney in gate 1

Terry Russell stated NDL at the public planning consultation. The 500 quote is all about driving an agenda of the Abbey being 'surplus to requirements' to enable the planning there. We all know 500 is way off the mark for Swindon, but my efforts to find anyone with any hard data to support that has met with tumbleweed.

Troy Butler rode in the 1989 final

Meeting reserve in 1977

https://swindonlink.com/sport/consultation/extended/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3q_upQuojLd3tnhi2kr60Xi3GxMHpMZb1Nyus5cDUaXLgUTRGHi6LHvcU_aem_REj1gm9JjewKbou_heU7rg

He put them into administration.