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I am informed that there is a possibility that Jason Doyle may ride for Leicester on the 11th April and not be called up to ride for Australia in the next round of the Eurosport Best Pairs.

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I am informed that there is a possibility that Jason Doyle may ride for Leicester on the 11th April and not be called up to ride for Australia in the next round of the Eurosport Best Pairs.

North is riding instead of Doyle in the pairs. Jason is putting Leicester first

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Holder and Batchelor are the Aussie Pair with North as reserve.

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It was better then the rubbish served up last night

 

I guess that makes the 'racing' served up at Leicester acceptable then.

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The original planning permission in 2010 was granted to a company called Beaumont Sports Complex Ltd (BSC), to be responsible for building the various facilities and associated infrastructure. To enable them to do this, and on condition that planning conditions were followed properly, they were granted a lease on the land by the owners, Leicester City Council.

BSC Ltd has never actually traded as a company, no annual accounts ever filed, and is officially classed as "dormant".

Despite this being the case, the Speedway stadium was built, with the remaining land being used for tipping of rubble. The premise under which the rubble tipping has been allowed, is that it serves to enable the necessary ground level raising, to prepare for the sports facilities to be installed.

As we know, the other sports facilities have yet to be created, and what we have is land covered in rubble.

Leicester Speedway Ltd (LS Ltd) carries out speedway operations but to my knowledge has never been the legally-appointed leaseholder for the land, or holder of the planning permission. This is an "active status"company, but limited by its memorandum to operating speedway etc at the stadium, presumably on a sub-lease basis from BSC (the mysteriously dormant company).

However, since 2010 and up to the end of last year, Leicester City Council had received about £75,000 from a combination of business rate payments, "rental and lease income", "sporting facilities" and planning fees.

This could only have been paid by parties other than BSC Ltd, perhaps LS Ltd (and/or others), because it couldn't have come from BSC. David Hemsley is the sole director of both BSC and LS, by the way.

This also begs the question as to who carried out the "ground level raising" operations (or rubble-tipping as some would see it), and was any money received and if so by whom? It would have been difficult for it to have gone into the coffers of BSC as the leaseholder and responsible development company, as that company has never officially traded. So who did pocket any income thus derived - and what was done with it? Make your own judgements on that.

Last year, Leicester City Council stomped around a bit and the original planning permission had to be revised and updated. One of the new requirements, was for a new "development plan" to be agreed between LCC and (presumably) BSC, designed to kick start the long-awaited development of the other sporting facilities. There was an August 2014 deadline for this plan to have been agreed with immediate start of implementation. This date came and went, without any such agreement being reached, and to my knowledge it still hasn't.

So what, if anything, will LCC do? Terminate BSC's lease and rescind the planning permission maybe? LSC would then become (officially!)direct tenants of LCC, as the latter would own the stadium. But in doing that, would LCC also become responsible for footing the bill to restore the rest of the land to its original state?

Or will they just allow the current status to continue, with the planning permission a meaningless and un-enforced document, the "landlords" not really existing, and the land continuing as a rubble tip - and happy as long as some income keeps on coming in, probably from Leicester Speedway Ltd or whoever is paying it?

Thank you. That clears it up for me. Just hope that some time in the near future we see something done to clean up the area and make it a bit more presentable.

Just hope we can do the same to the Bees as we did last time. The only thing is that we must up the game and start wimning the away matches, or languish at the bottom of the league again.

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Faster does not equate to better! I am of the opinion that racing has suffered since the advent of high-revving engines.

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Thank you. That clears it up for me. Just hope that some time in the near future we see something done to clean up the area and make it a bit more presentable.

Just hope we can do the same to the Bees as we did last time. The only thing is that we must up the game and start wimning the away matches, or languish at the bottom of the league again.

No problem Weatherwatcher. Happy to be of help.

Just to clarify my answer slightly - Leicester City Council owns the land the stadium sits on (as well as the rest of the area) but of course Leicester Speedway Ltd owns the "fitments" of the stadium.

When the revised planning permission was drawn up last year, it required certain work to be done with the stadium itself (such as extra noise prevention), as well as work to the surrounding land.

I've not been up there for a long while, but it sounds like not much, if anything, has been done to the land surrounding the stadium to carry out that work. As for the stadium, it sounds like there's been some work carried out but I've no idea if its been done to the council's satisfaction.

My guess, for what its worth, is that City Council would prefer to not rock the boat much, as long as they've got some money coming in from the speedway. To get involved with more serious action would presumably cost them quite a bit in legal fees etc.

Hope you get a couple of good, closer matches with Coventry this weekend!

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Faster does not equate to better! I am of the opinion that racing has suffered since the advent of high-revving engines.

Most of the riders are just winding it on and then fighting to get around the bends. Are the bikes now too fast for tracks which have not been made bigger. Too many incidents now as a result of riders losing control when being put under pressure.

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I have been having this out in the forum about early injuries this year. I do think that the bikes are now getting well over the top, me I would bring back the old upright engine and lay more dirt on the track.

It would make far better and closer racing, with the riders having to re learn how to ride a speedway bike properly, using the trottle and haveing more control over the bike. All we see now is the riders shooting off from the tapes and then a dick follow the leader type racing, that is if you can call it racing.

But it all boils down to would the riders want it, or is it now just a fact that money talks.

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All we see now is the riders shooting off from the tapes and then a dick follow the leader type racing, that is if you can call it racing.

 

I can remember seeing some diabolical matches at the old Blackbird Road track with processional racing in the 70's and 80's so I don't think things are that different these days. There's usually three or four good races during a match, perhaps one or two exceptional ones if we're lucky and the rest not so interesting......just like its always been.

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