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Shrewsbury Quarry could soon get new concert noise limits
Thursday 17th June 2010, 1:49PM BST.
Previous Quarry concerts have attracted 10,000-strong audiences
Shrewsbury’s Quarry could have a new noise limits licence in a matter of weeks helping to entice big name acts to perform in the town if the bid to alter the current licence is approved, it was revealed today.
This week Shrewsbury Town Council agreed to apply to amend the licence to allow louder music to be played at the town centre park.
Today the council confirmed the process of amending the licence was under way, with consultation also beginning.
And it is hoped Shropshire Council will be able to consider the application in a matter of weeks, paving the way for shows by big name acts if it proves successful.
At a full council meeting on Monday night the town council rubber-stamped plans to apply for a new licence for the public park in the town centre with no restriction on noise following huge support from music fans.
But although it is hoped the new licence could attract performers such as Status Quo, the council’s own internal policies currently restrict the limit to 75 decibels a regulation inherited from the former borough council.
Prestigious
A review was called for at the meeting into the authority’s own guidelines, after it emerged it was the only such authority in the country to have a decibel limit.
Today council clerk Helen Ball said the noise limits licence application process had begun. She said: “The notices have been posted and the consultation period has actually started.
“We’re hoping to get the application considered by Shropshire Council in the next couple of weeks. We need to have discussions with promoters of various acts and whether noise levels have been a factor in not getting the right kind of people there.
“We’re hoping more prestigious acts could play now and come to the town if the application does go through.
“The Quarry is a valuable resource and lots of people use it. If we can try to extend that a little bit further then all well and good.”
She said a drive to encourage more use of the bandstand in the Quarry had also proved a success so far with events held on Sundays.
By John Kirk
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hooray….!
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…and still it drones on. Almost as bad as the Cabernet sloshers 80′s ‘revival’ shows. Just stick it all on at the West Mid, point the stage out of town, bung the flats some tickets and be done.
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Why put it there? The quarry is perfect for gigs, it’s right in the centre of Shrewsbury so those attending the gigs can use the town before and afterwards. Put events out at the west mid show ground and most people will drive there and straight home when it’s finished.
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Why cant people like merc live and let live. It’s not as if it’s every night, and it can make a great town venue into a regional venue bringing with it a vital injection into the local economy.
I grew up in Shrewsbury, have spent many years away until coming back to what I consider my home town, and whilst there are a lot of friendly people here, there is a minority of grumpy NIMBYs’ that give the town and the county a bad reputation.
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I remember in the 1970s when children were encouraged to see the Dingle as an exciting place to play hide and seek. There was even little thatched house builtin the rockery specifically aimed at the younger children.
Now the Dingle is equivilent to a
crematorium. Horrible over abundance of boring wooden benches dedicated to dead people.Pretty flower displays but a hideous Victorian cherub fountain thing for some reason painted lurid colours.
The young adults are harangued in the local newspaper for drinking and smoking in the Quarry when today alcoholic drink has been made too easily available. Apparently this spoils the ambience of the town.
I remember well the Squaddies in the 1970s always getting into trouble for drunkeness and fights or jumping into the river. We got rid of them, young adults next I suppose in order to create this pristine Utopia.
Why do people think that Shrewsbury preserved in aspic is a tourist attraction? We have never had the visitor numbers that LLangollen gets. Maybe we should acknowledge that it is the vibrancy of the town that people are attracted to and that means a mix of age groups including young people and providing outlets for their energy and exuberence.
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