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Mick Bratley

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  1. Not just me then. Kept me amused all night. Not the brightest idea having a red display either.
  2. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Be very timely if the Environmental Agency findings are released today or tomorrow morning ahead of AEPGs second revised planning application for the DHL business which is being heard tomorrow afternoon at the Town Hall at 13:30. Be magnificent if those findings accuse AEPG of their businesses killing 100,000 fish.
  3. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    It’s not just DHL there are other companies doing the same work there now Vauxhall, Audi and Tesla in addition to DHL . . . . but don’t tell anybody, they don’t want anyone to know.
  4. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Myself and Carl Johnson attended the Parish Council meeting this evening with about 25 supporters (thanks guys). I spoke at length to the council about the current situation facing the club and I am pleased to say that the Parish Council have agreed to submit an application to Peterborough City Council to apply for the Speedway Track and surrounds (including the grandstand) to be considered for an Asset of Community Value. The fact the Parish Council has agreed to do this (we never asked them to do this) is very pleasing and it demonstrates that the Parish Council of Orton Waterville (which covers the Showground) are 100% supportive of Peterborough Panthers Speedway Club being retained in Peterborough. I suspect that would have been the best attended Parish Council meeting of the year, extra chairs were required, although I think initially they thought it was some sort of Internet Flash Mob that had turned up with flags and banners! Special mention to the (very) young Panthers supporting children who came, you guys were amazing. Thanks also to Cllr Julie Stevenson for her continuing commitment in our quest to retain Speedway in Peterborough.
  5. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Motion to be tabled at the next full Peterborough City Council meeting to be held on Wednesday 6th December 2023. This will be live-streamed. 6. Motion from Councillor Stevenson The team motorbike sport known as ‘speedway’ has been of great credit to Peterborough since 1970. The local ‘Peterborough Panthers’ team has won the highest level national championship three times, most recently in 2021. Over the years, the club has brought many trophies to our city at various levels within the sport, including junior level. Peterborough Speedway has put the city of on the international map, via regular live TV coverage broadcast on the Warner Bros Discovery TV channel. Since 1970 until now, Peterborough Panthers has been racing on a purpose-built racetrack, thought to be one of the best in the world, on the East of England Showground. The showground’s current owner, the East of England Agricultural Society (EEAS) now wishes to sell the showground, and the council’s local plan states that the land may be developed for housing and leisure. However, AEPG, the company tasked with preparing the showground land for sale on behalf of EEAS has made it clear that the Peterborough speedway club is no longer permitted to race at the showground with immediate effect, regardless of the outcome of its two existing planning applications to redevelop the site. (In an article published in the Peterborough Telegraph on 21st November 2023, AEPG said, “To be clear, the decision not to renew the arrangement for running speedway meets would remain, irrespective of any planning applications on the land.”) The landowner and its agent having confirmed that the club will not be permitted to race at the showground after the end of the 2023 season (which has now concluded), means that club now has nowhere to race, and with nowhere to race the club cannot continue to operate and the sport of speedway in Peterborough may die. As a matter of urgency, Peterborough Panthers Speedway Club must now find a new home. 96 This council acknowledges:  The enormous cultural and economic benefits that Peterborough Panthers Speedway Club has brought to Peterborough over the past 53 years.  The many benefits Peterborough Panthers Speedway Club brings to the residents of Peterborough, many of whom have spoken of how the club has contributed positively towards their mental health and sense of wellbeing and community.  That Peterborough Panthers provides positive role models for young people who are interested in motorbikes and provides a means for them to enjoy motorbikes as a sport in a safe and responsible way. This council resolves:  To arrange a meeting between the current owners of the Peterborough Panthers Speedway Team and the council leader and relevant cabinet member(s) and council officers to discover if there is any way the council can help to keep the sport of speedway alive in Peterborough.  To promote speedway in Peterborough so that more of the city’s residents are aware of the benefits this family-oriented sport brings to the city. Full agenda here: https://democracy.peterborough.gov.uk/documents/s51351/12. Motions on Notice.pdf
  6. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    No apology necessary fella.
  7. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    ‘Crook’ is not the right word. Amateur or Tinpot would be a better summarisation.
  8. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    At £1.3m there would have been a very long queue to purchase the Showground and I would have been in that queue! About five years ago it has been reported that £10m could have bought it although it wasn’t widely advertised. Again that would have had a lengthy queue of suitors if it had been marketed properly. I probably wouldn’t have been in that queue! You probably need to add another zero to the value with planning approval, already there is tacit agreement from three separate house developers for three parcels of land for approx £35m although given the current slump in house building they may kick that into the long grass.
  9. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Don’t stress yourself over this.
  10. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Third from the left in this picture. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67491812
  11. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    He was pictured in the press last week attending a homeless charity! Why I don’t know, maybe something to do with affordable homes. Luckily the reporter knew of him and refused to interview him, as hard as he may have tried to get interviewed. Tinpot.
  12. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    http://plandocs.peterborough.gov.uk/PublicAccess.WebSearch/(S(33qzxbe541ggm4e1rx5qcxun))/Results.aspx Currently second document down PCC Policy. While you’re there submit your own objection! Here: https://planpa.peterborough.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=RSXWVDML04U00 And here: https://planpa.peterborough.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=RSOMJ0MLIWV00
  13. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    The shift in power of the council has definitely helped Speedway’s cause. The pressure we have put on AEPG is immense and guess what we’ve only just begun. The next two weeks are going to heap even more pressure on AEPG specifically with one confirmed (and as yet not announced publicly) event and one that I hope will be confirmed early next week. These two events will hit AEPG very hard. There is also another rally in the shopping centre of the ward where the Showground is on Saturday 2nd December. Also worth pointing out that the document you mention above originates from the PCC Planning Department. Great to see that Speedway is specifically mentioned in LP30, which kicks AEPG in the nuts as they have recently stated in a statement that LP30 does not specifically relate to Speedway. ‘ave it!
  14. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    I am sure that it’s purely coincidental that a firm of architects reside on that particular street in Stamford.
  15. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Trust me, it really isn’t like that. Buster won't be demolishing the Grandstand as that is the property of the Showground not the Speedway club. The other issue is that the Grandstand has asbestos in it. Demolishing the Grandstand will be very costly, AEPG won’t be wanting to pay for that now. It is in their schedule to remove in several years time, subject of course to planning approval, they need planning approval before they can demolish it.
  16. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    The fence needed replacing during this close season anyway, it was rotten and held together by various bits and pieces. It’s important to note that AEPG instructed Buster to do this otherwise they would have employed contractors to do it and send him the bill. It’s been estimated that the removal of everything will cost £25k to £30k. Buster is most definitely not the bad guy here.
  17. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    AEPG think that this will demonstrate that it satisfies option k of the local plan policy LP30, that being that the track is no longer fit for purpose. That’s naive, as they have instructed the current owners to destroy it. Pretty sure our council will not buy into that, more so given AEPGs arrogance and ignoring of the recent council refusal of their DHL operations. Agreed it doesn’t look good in those pictures but that’s only because we’ve never seen it like that before. There’s nothing that has been done that can’t be rectified in a short space of time, we have the manpower (supporters) and we have the sponsors who will support financially. AEPG may have broken supporters hearts but they’ll never break their spirit, these actions will just make the supporters more determined.
  18. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    AEPG are amateurs in a big boys world of developing. The East of England Agricultural Society (who are getting an easy ride in this and pretty sure that’s going to change as time passes) must be wondering how they’ve got into bed with such a tin pot company, one where the CEO is so worried about his development plans (which have received 1900 comments 99.75% of which are objections) has now enlisted his mates in the Home Counties to start submitting comments in support of the applications. Like I said, tin pot.
  19. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    The problem is we either go on November 18th or wait until end of January 2024. I think we had to go on November 18th.
  20. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/210443765632762/permalink/24548933964690403/
  21. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    Butterfield doesn’t realise it yet, the key to his development plans is held by the Speedway club. He will have to speak to the consortium at some point.
  22. Currently for sale on eBay. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155850177041?hash=item244964fa11:g:T4AAAOSwQbllOUIb&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8LwIznBYtIC375E%2B8oYF8BjlnEb5Jmli6k2QYF0Ls6StUiDPYgGVD8vcwNksdMkYHs0w6BmZjPPbTwZo4DSk%2FsFSM7%2FMBjM19d%2FAQ5N3NgU2QuT6mqKVXvrsNaHsymoxOcdrc9KjkKTDSI1v4%2BOklvBT393%2BxKXiIEhBQOYdKPUECvceL%2BHcQp6a712pFiiE%2Bg%2B1x5o7tKMcVT3GkD9ChqcT6KRDGaY4iDFK%2FiRO7fOkWTCEBtr0BPGbOzm6AgWN%2FRaGVWFtMP02JZPSQfMlgPaoe4FOxUCuTTi7E1Ezc3Su2a%2FXGkFoRo9ljKfijl6YXA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4D61NPtYg
  23. I feel the pain of the Wolves supporters, Monmore has never been a happy hunting ground for me and I’ve watched Peterborough get some right maulings there, getting a win there was like rocking horse ****. In CVS you have a fantastic promoter and owner, if anyone can steer you to a future, it will be him. You’re in safe hands and I wish you well.
  24. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    They are now in breach of their contract with DHL I would suggest. DHL must be wondering who the hell they have got into bed with following yesterday’s umm oh er umm er performance from the AEPG CEO.
  25. Mick Bratley

    Peterborough Panthers 2023

    There is only one other entrance they can use and they definitely did not want to use it, even the planning officers emailed them months ago suggesting it would be a better approach. I think the reason they didn’t want to use this entrance was because that will be the entrance they will use for development as their plans for the first set of houses are close to it. Development traffic and HGV trailers using the same road would undoubtedly see a reaction from residents and businesses that currently use that road access.
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