UK’s ‘biggest man cave’ is FINALLY being torn down as work begins to demolish millionaire’s ‘eyesore’ leisure complex
RESIDENTS who live next to the 'Wembley Stadium' of motor racing slammed the crumbling wreck - and travellers who loot it for scrap., was the proud home of Coventry's Speedway before it was shut down in 2016 and "left to rot".Now, locals living nearby are fuming the site has been abandoned and sits at the mercy of vandals who ravage it for metal and cables.
"Every day there is someone in there trying to smash it up. We had travellers come along and take all the cables out. They stayed a while."Now general vandals have taken it over and it’s heartbreaking to see. We used to get thousands come down every week and given the number of tracks that have closed, this could be a goldmine.Meanwhile, beauty therapist Anna-Renate Kerins, 72, agreed it was much better when the speedway was on.
"This was the best stadium in the country. Since then, we’ve had travellers breaking in a couple of times and the owners not caring what state it gets into."The 2,000-seater stadium opened in 1928 and played host to British Speedway Finals, World Stock Car Finals as well as greyhound racing. "Now it is in a shocking state. There have been major cases of arson and parts of the grandstand have been burnt through."And nearby resident Diane Hodgetts, 76, said: "It is dangerous for kids to be in there and that’s a major concern for me.The last event at the Stadium was on November 5 2016.
"It has been bought by people determined to make money from houses and they have not looked after it. They have wrecked it."A LOCAL planning authority, or LPA, may serve a notice under section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, TCPA, where the condition of land or buildings adversely affects the amenity of an area.
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