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Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: strapping young lad on May 25, 2006, 09:44:47: found on another forum, so take comments with a pinch of salt.

The new series of the show, currently broadcast at 8pm on Sunday evenings on BBC2, is currently being filmed without planning permission for all the noise it causes. The track, at Dunsfold Park, near Guildford in Surrey, is an old Second World War airbase, and has become the focus of a fierce row locally, with residents of the nearby Dunsfold village enraged by the noisy antics of Jeremy Clarkson and his star test driver, "The Stig".The programmeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s last planning permission expired on April 30th and the local Waverly Council has served a noise abatement order. "Top Gear" is not the only user of the track, which is also used to host track days and similar events. The airfield also contains a giant "dummy" jet airliner that can be used for fire evacuation training. The local council is investigating reports that the owners of the site regularly allows events that are in breach of planning regulations.
Title: Re: top gear may be banned?
Post by: WishIhadaLandy on May 25, 2006, 10:13:43: Quote from: "strapping young lad"

currently being filmed without planning permission for all the noise it causes.

I thought planning permission was something to do with buildings not noise. :?
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: Rangie3.0LtrDan on May 25, 2006, 10:49:41: You don't need any order for noise stuff. The worst they can do is get environment health down, and even then they wont do anything unless the noise is excessive past a certain time of the evening.
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: Evilgoat on May 25, 2006, 11:18:18: I beleive that Dunsfold sorted this out some time again. We have been talking to them about holding an event there. The only thing they cant do is allow the public to throw cars round the track.

And they are working on that.

Ric
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: strapping young lad on May 25, 2006, 12:12:12: maybe top gear can be hosted from a small circuit like castle combe or thruxton or oulton park

brand hatch and silverstone will be too expensive for the licence payer coffers :)
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: defuzz on May 25, 2006, 12:36:06: hahahahahahhahahahahaha f******* numpties, the airfield has been there since WW2 so pretty much everyone knew they were moving next to an airfield which, unless I'm not mistake tend to have planes landing on them, but now they're complaining about cars?

Time to land a few jumbo jets on the field, that'll cover the noise of the stig.
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: the loon on May 25, 2006, 15:01:48: as you say take this with a pinch of salt

no scratch that think its take it with a VERY large bowl of salt

bet this is a rumour started by 5th gear as they are probably getting worried now .... :wink:
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: Bunnie on May 26, 2006, 20:37:53: As Evilgoat said, Topgear are not the only ones to use the site. Many of the hangers contain vehicle companies from formula one to formula women. along with garages and film crews etc.

Indeed we are hoping to hold an event there next year, When i spoke to the cordinator a few months back about booking the site, he said they were having a change round to get more barries opened up as such when it comes to public useage.
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: freeagent on May 27, 2006, 10:12:02: Quote from: "Bunnie"
formula women. .

i've never heard of it... but it sounds interesting... i bet watching them trying to park is hilarious......
Title: top gear may be banned?
Post by: Jake on May 27, 2006, 10:26:57: Mark Evans has a unit at Dunsfold too
(the guy behind the 'Is Born' series)
:D