Apologies if this is a repost, but i'd not seen it before.

 

E-petition here: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/72458

 

introduce mandatory noise complaint waiver for anyone who buys or rents a property close to motorsport venue

Responsible department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

There are innumerate cases of people knowingly moving within close proximity of motorsport venues, only to try to have their planning permission revoked or have them closed completely when they take exception to the noise.

It is extremely detrimental to the UK's motorsport heritage, when all the motorsport venues start disappearing. Motorsport and the associated mechanical/engineering business is a key British export and second to none in the world of motorsports.

As such, anyone who wishes to buy or rent a property within a determined distance of a motorsport venue should have to read and sign legislature that waives their right to complain about the noise from the nearby venue. If they do not wish to be bothered by something that was a fixture of the community long before they arrived, they should not move there in the first place.

Done it

Can't agree more with that one - we're ding some public consultations at work at the moment to do with the railways and crossing points and some of the objections we have received to the proposals we are putting forward are complaining about rail noise and the numbers of people using the crossings...   ???

Its utterly stupid. I used to work in a factory that started work at 06:00. They built some flats right next to it, then we got fined for making noise when the idiots who bought them complained. How the hell does this idiotic stuff get through? If you buy a house next to a racetrack, then, well, you've bought a house next to a racetrack so you must be completely stupid to not expect loud noise.

You would be surprised with the amount of stupidity in the world... then you have the "lawyers" who basically instigate such fines and lawsuits in order to shamelessly milk the system, akin to professional welfare system sponges but on a much higher scale. Complaints like that should be thrown out of court without even reading them.

There is no common sense nor decency exercised by the people who approve such fines. Some basic logic should be enforced and people who complain in such situations should be fined for wasting authorities' time, resources and tax payers' money!