What about Northampton?

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

45 minutes ago, heathen52 said:

With regards your reference to Linlithgow, this is what Next Generation Heathens are attempting to do with Cradley Heathens, however whilst the local farmer has agreed to them having a field, the relevant local authority are proving to be rather more difficult with regards to giving the PP, I would think the chances of them progressing have very little chance of succeeding, Councils simply do not want Speedway.

HNG have many locations on the go at the moment not just rocky lane, I’ve been with them to view 4 over the last few weeks, the effort alone deserves success at at already one of them and if it doesn’t get success at any then the councils are 100% to blame, imo 3 of the 5 are ideal locations and seem to tick the right boxes,one was ideal but not big enough and the other was too close to houses 

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[Fromafar]

1 hour ago, heathen52 said:

With regards your reference to Linlithgow, this is what Next Generation Heathens are attempting to do with Cradley Heathens, however whilst the local farmer has agreed to them having a field, the relevant local authority are proving to be rather more difficult with regards to giving the PP, I would think the chances of them progressing have very little chance of succeeding, Councils simply do not want Speedway.

Don’t know where Heathens farmers land is located,but Linlithgow track was in “ the middle of nowhere “.Was never going to be developed into permanent stadium.IMO.

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

42 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

Don’t know where Heathens farmers land is located,but Linlithgow track was in “ the middle of nowhere “.Was never going to be developed into permanent stadium.IMO.

It’s now an abattoir 

[SPEEDY69]

11 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

It’s now an abattoir 

Shame, only rode there once but it seemed a nice little track.

[HackneyHawk]

On 3/7/2026 at 11:50 AM, RoundTheBoards said:

Going twos up on Agnetha does have a bit more appeal than with Charles Wright.

do your mum and dad know you're on the internet unsupervised?

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

19 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said:

Shame, only rode there once but it seemed a nice little track.

I loved it, rode there many times, always well prepared 

[heathen52]

20 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

HNG have many locations on the go at the moment not just rocky lane, I’ve been with them to view 4 over the last few weeks, the effort alone deserves success at at already one of them and if it doesn’t get success at any then the councils are 100% to blame, imo 3 of the 5 are ideal locations and seem to tick the right boxes,one was ideal but not big enough and the other was too close to houses 

Deanno, what do we consider to be to close to houses ? surely BV is close to houses but it is something the council wanted so it was allowed, surely if something improves the area as a whole then it can be put forward for outline planning permission ?, discounting farmers fields i am aware of pretty much 99.9% of sites around Cradley Heath obviously their is no ideal site otherwise it would have been found by now, ideally a track share with Wolves would be ideal and if a site was big enough a track within a track could be the way to track share (the inside track for Wolves), The Lion Farm site just off Junction 2 of the M5 would have been ideal for a project such as that, but again the local council prefer to let the site become more and more run down before it eventually becomes uneconomic to repair and will be sold off to developers, in the meantime they refuse to lease the site and receive an annual rental income which could have been be reinvested.

 

 

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[THE DEAN MACHINE]

1 hour ago, heathen52 said:

Deanno, what do we consider to be to close to houses ? surely BV is close to houses but it is something the council wanted so it was allowed, surely if something improves the area as a whole then it can be put forward for outline planning permission ?, discounting farmers fields i am aware of pretty much 99.9% of sites around Cradley Heath obviously their is no ideal site otherwise it would have been found by now, ideally a track share with Wolves would be ideal and if a site was big enough a track within a track could be the way to track share (the inside track for Wolves), The Lion Farm site just off Junction 2 of the M5 would have been ideal for a project such as that, but again the local council prefer to let the site become more and more run down before it eventually becomes uneconomic to repair and will be sold off to developers, in the meantime they refuse to lease the site and receive an annual rental income which could have been be reinvested.

 

 

The site I was referring to is close to cradley heath but houses are literally 100yards from edge of land, the rocky lane site is perfect in every aspect but the council for whatever reason don’t seem keen to have it there, 3 other sites have potential but are 5 miles from cradley but one especially has a very major plus going for it but dealing with councils is a drag, it can be weeks/months be for you get a reply, we contacted entain about a track share to run wolves on a Monday and cradley on a Wednesday but they said not at this time(whatever that means) ?