Action Park, at Bonville Farm, Wickford, was forced to shut after Basildon Council issued an enforcement notice in May 2015 against the park.
The site had been operating on green belt land without planning permission for seven years prior to its closure.
That's longer than it takes to resolve some traveller sites!
Owner Philip McCaul says the closure of his site has caused motocross riders to set up racecourses on public roads.
Footage available on the Echo website shows about a dozen bikers pulling wheelies and slaloming at speed through traffic cones.
He said: “What these riders are doing is utterly insane - they’re closing areas off and using them to race down. Sometimes there can be 30-40 bikes which meet at night, someone is going to be killed.”
*shrugs* So long as it's one of the idiots, and not an innocent pedestrian...
Mr McCaul and park manager Marie Martin’s latest planning bid was scrapped by Basildon Council in February. However they have sent off fresh plans in the hope to get it reopened.
FFS!
John Anderson, Canvey Island Independent Party councillor, said: “If it gets the bikers off the streets, so they’re not upsetting residents in the streets, then park is a good thing.
“But it’s imperative the nearby residents are consulted.”
They are the ones who objected.
2 comments:
It appears to escape tiny minds and regrettably that is the majority of us that prohibition can have damaging consequences far in excess of those that created the prohibition in the first place. We make things illegal or ban them from good intentions, self interest and other misguided and often nefarious reasons. True when it comes to harm to other persons or their property then prohibition and vigorous enforcement is the only option open to us. However beyond that we should be careful, which we are not, that we are not prohibiting something to benefit a vested interest and in the process moving an evil/annoyance/nuisance around like a parcel from one doorstep to the next. A perfect example is that prohibition of drugs, alcohol, prostitution has all lead to gangsteism that kills and maims thousands every day. Billions wasted on fighting crime that prohibition has created and would have not done so if never enacted.
"A perfect example is that prohibition of drugs, alcohol, prostitution has all lead to gangsteism that kills and maims thousands every day."
I remain less than convinced we'd be better off if they were legal.
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