Highways bosses will be monitoring an international race meeting in north Shropshire tomorrow before a controversial planning application goes back before councillors.
Salop Motor Club’s ninth international motocross meeting at Hawkstone Park will be under the spotlight with highways officers on the lookout for problems with traffic, access and noise.
North Shropshire District Council is also sending enforcement officers to the site, dubbed the “home of British motocross”.
The action is being taken as race organisers submitted plans to almost double the size of the caravan and camping area at the scramble track.The club has been holding motocross meetings for more than 50 years and wants to increase the camping area from 4.7 hectares to eight hectares to cope with demand at large events.
But the controversial plans were put on hold at the district council’s development control committee last month after neighbours raised concerns at traffic to the site, access and noise.
Councillor Gerald Dakin said today: “The meeting will be monitored and photographic evidence taken as to what affect the traffic has on roads and residents nearby.”
Salop Motor Club chairman Dave Williams today declined to comment on the matter. Members of North Shropshire District Council’s development control committee will reconsider the plans on March 14.
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