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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, ch958 said:

    what does this mean then?

     

    It's the fruits of the nice Mr Russell's labours in playing the viability card and stepping aside to leave a clearer path.

    Removal of the covenant leaves the greyhound position in their own gift and leaves them able to cease them and leave the stadium to rot until the council relent  - which they will.

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  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, 25yearfan said:

    If the laws of the land are applied Osbourne and Co will be severely reprimanded for the planning breaches and the current application for change of use will be thrown out.

     

    A question for those who may know - With the stadium carpark now built on would it be possible for speedway to restart at Blunsdon stadium without such a facility? - Where would supporters park?

    It would have to be on local business car parking, such as the David Lloyd Centre or somewhere in Groundwell Ind Estate with a park n ride system.

  11. Posted

    39 minutes ago, mikebv said:

    Are they worried now that the licence is no longer in the hands of the previous promotion that someone may come along and start up again? 

    There are people who want to. Understandbly, they do not want to enter into an arrangement with good old Clarkey boy...

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  12. Posted

    6 hours ago, skydog said:

    Anyone know the meeting went?

    Parish Meeting agreed to submit an objection to the planning application for change of use.

     

    But...

    GI also have submitted a statement to the Council which subtly frames the intention of their application differently to a change of use..

  14. Posted

    On 3/3/2024 at 3:35 PM, Toady said:

    That’s interesting, It  would suggest that they the other managers received some sort of reward otherwise they wouldn’t need to be tied down at all and would be singing from the rooftops.

    They are concerned about legal ramifications.

    Russell losing the licence, should help them now be more open.

  15. Posted

    On 3/2/2024 at 2:05 PM, mikebv said:

    And when you get met with almost zero coordinated, organised protests, then "fair play" to Osbourne as he can take it that...

    1. Hardly anyone from the fanbase cares...

    And. 2. (And possibly most important of alll) the promoters of Swindon and the wider BSP, seem to let him happily do what he wants....

    Can't blame him to be honest...

    I agree, the response from fans, media and speedway management has been very muted! In fact, we've rolled over and had our bellies tickled!

    Russell has tied the other managers down with NDA's and the local media are only now starting to delve under the covers. Five years on, most fans have drifted off to other things.

    The BSPL and Phil Morris have both been made aware of what the situation is and have done diddly squat about it.

  16. Posted · Edited by frigbo

    On 2/24/2024 at 2:52 PM, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

    Osbourne and gaming international are doing nothing wrong, they are not breaking any laws, they are business men out to make money at the expense of speedway, they are morally bankrupt but the world doesn’t turn on moral’s unfortunately, it’s up to the government of the day to make laws to stop sports stadiums being used by the likes of Osbourne but they are more morally corrupt than GI, if speedway was making money for Osbourne he would be happy for Swindon etc to continue 

    I think you need to see the 'completed stadium' and planning conditions at Swindon before spouting such rubbish.

  19. Posted

    Swindon Speedway Update
    We have instigated a formal process with the landowner and developer to determine whether breaches have taken place.. The importance of getting the enforcement process legally correct cannot be over stated. 

    Breaches of planning can be a criminal issue and whilst investigations are taking place there is limited information that can be put into the public domain so as not to prejudice the case. 

     

    I can only stress how complex the planning history is on this site. Some of the development appears to have been implemented under one consent and some under another – and there are several. This complexity has raised a number of legal technicalities. 

    Update this evening from the lead of Swindon Council

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Toady said:

    Thanks for that(didn’t like for obvious reasons)where did you find them ?.I looked at the 106 but it was 96 blank pages.all I could find was this that was suggested before the decisio

     

     

    These were provided by a local journalist who is doing some digging into the position of the planning conditions.

    They're so vague, there's no way SBC could effectively challenge whether they're met or not.

  25. Posted

    On 1/24/2024 at 9:27 PM, Chris said:

    Why haven't the BSPL taken the licence off Russell yet? Any serious association would have had the licence off him as soon as he joined Osbourne in making that statement about speedway not being viable at the Abbey & joining Swindon Mototorsport.

    This! One hundred times, this!

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