Silverstone redevelopment

[Peter Harding]

My local evening paper picked this up - but haven't seen much elsewhere.
Are the plans available somewhere?

http://www.autoindustry.co.uk/news/08-02-08_6

[rotorboy]

Interesting...good news I guess but they need to pull their fingers out or the GP is lost, and where would they go from there? Bernie's going to want to finalise the F1 schedule for 2010 in 18 months, hope they can build quick!
I did see the plans on South Northants council site, darned if I can find the link though...

[roys1]

Try here... lots of PDF's to browse through http://www.aylesbury.gov.uk/avdc/con...tid=-889414092

[Asp]

I'm presuming this is following the public consultation that took place a bit ago. All plans that were made available for that look to still be online:
http://www.southnorthants.gov.uk/library/1584.htm

[The STIG]

Originally Posted by rotorboy

Interesting...good news I guess but they need to pull their fingers out or the GP is lost, and where would they go from there?

Upwards, prehaps?

[chezza]

That was the initial stage...they now have to apply for the full planning permission...which iirc (the MD of silverstone was at the BRDCMC dinner) is due to be in at the end of Feb.

[John Newman]

Forget it, the plans will not get approved, Bernie will not accept the state of the circuit. That nice Gordon Brown will not invest government money in motorsport, as he has already wasted our money on something called "Olympics" which I gather used to be a sort of sport engaged in by drug fuelled feral yobs.
Goodbye GP.

[blackx]

They could always apply to become an airfield

[White flag man]

But, they'd need a 2nd and 3rd runway and at least 5 terminals

[blackx]

Originally Posted by White flag man

But, they'd need a 2nd and 3rd runway and at least 5 terminals

Pit straight

Hangar Straight


And they must have at least 5 toilet blocks

[White flag man]

[QUOTE=blackx]Pit straight

Unless you're flying Harriers, I think you're cutting it a bit fine.

[Peter Harding]

Originally Posted by John Newman

Forget it, the plans will not get approved, Bernie will not accept the state of the circuit. That nice Gordon Brown will not invest government money in motorsport, as he has already wasted our money on something called "Olympics" which I gather used to be a sort of sport engaged in by drug fuelled feral yobs.
Goodbye GP.

Finance for this, I believe is already in hand. They will raise the money from non-BRDCMC marshals buying food.

[lanceyboyuk]

id just like to see it go back to an old fashioned racing circuit. do we really need to spend all this money?

[The STIG]

Originally Posted by lanceyboyuk

id just like to see it go back to an old fashioned racing circuit. do we really need to spend all this money?

If you want that, then you'd be wanting to get rid of the F1 event then - they don't like Old Fashioned.

Just to clarify, I assume that you naturally do not mean that the safety measures are "old fasioned"

[BeeJ]

Pitpass has some computer genrated images for the new Pits, that they say is still going to be moved to between Club and Abbey, does this mean there will be two sets of pits or wil the National Circuit not be used anymore ?

[AndyT]

If it's anything to do with Bernie, it'll be the new for F1 and the old for the rest

[The STIG]

If it's anything to do with Bernie, It'll be Silverstone for F1 and for nothing else. We can't have actual motor racing on an F1 Circuit after all, it may spoil it.

[Alan Crook]

There have been reports in the local press which say the so called Masterplan for the redevelopment of Silverstone race circuit is to be sent back to the local council to be `reconsidered`.

The key concern is the building of around 200 new homes in Silverstone Village, which residents believe will significantly change the character of the village and affect its infrastructure.

As a resident of Silverstone village I welcome this review, I do not wish to see the British GP lost but do not think it should be retained at the expense of the village.

[Fay]

Originally Posted by Alan Crook

There have been reports in the local press which say the so called Masterplan for the redevelopment of Silverstone race circuit is to be sent back to the local council to be `reconsidered`.

The key concern is the building of around 200 new homes in Silverstone Village, which residents believe will significantly change the character of the village and affect its infrastructure.

As a resident of Silverstone village I welcome this review, I do not wish to see the British GP lost but do not think it should be retained at the expense of the village.

I believe that one option the villagers might not object to is the building of a totally new village somewhere down by Stowe. There they could build it containing all the infrastructure required and Silverstone Village would not be altered.

I think most people do not object to the buildings planned at Silverstone Circuit, it is as Alan says the extra homes they want to build within the village boundary (ie the village side of the A43) that most villagers find unacceptable.

This is quite apart from the fact that when you look at other circuits where they have built new houses they have found that a lot of new residents then start complaining about the noise factors and the circuits find themselves being very restricted on what they can run and when.

[The Fat Clerk]

A possible difficulty I can see with building at the Stowe end of the circuit, is that it's in Buckinghamshire, whereas the rest of the circuit (& village) are in Northamptonshire, are we all know what Councils (Local & County) are like.

[Fay]

Originally Posted by The Fat Clerk

A possible difficulty I can see with building at the Stowe end of the circuit, is that it's in Buckinghamshire, whereas the rest of the circuit (& village) are in Northamptonshire, are we all know what Councils (Local & County) are like.

Dave, what you are probably not aware of is that they have already put in planning permission with Buckinghamshire County Council for various bits. I think the Technology College is in that area.

[The Fat Clerk]

Yeah could well be. Just that Councils are normally pretty unhelpful with each other in my experience, especially if they think they're being 'dumped on' by a rival!