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Search the Public Notice PortalThe owner of a Herefordshire motocross track says he will fight the latest attempt to close it down.
Herefordshire Council issued an enforcement notice earlier this month requiring Richard Hyett of Riley Hill Farm, Cradley near the Worcestershire border, to “cease the use of the land for the purposes of motorcycle racing including trials of speed, and practising for these activities” from October 6 – unless he chose to appeal against the notice.
This follows an attempt by council four years ago to impose a so-called “Article 4 Direction” to restrict what development could lawfully be carried out at the farm, which ordinarily would have included a right to race on it.
But when Mr Hyett appealed against this, the case then appeared to stall for the best part of two years.
“Can you let me know what’s happening here please, last we heard from yourselves was 6/11/23,” the council’s development manager Mark Tansley wrote in frustration back in February to the planning inspector Paul Eland, assigned to adjudicate on the case.
A month later he wrote: “We are now receiving reports that the track was used last weekend.
“Can you give me any indication of when the current appeal is likely to be determined in order that I can prioritise this matter accordingly. It is a realistic prospect that we will both be dealing with an Enforcement Appeal for the use of land before too long.”
A spokesperson for Herefordshire Council has now said: “The council does not have control over the actions of the Planning Inspectorate.
“We have chased, but we have not received a decision.”
But Mr Hyett said of the council’s latest move: “I’ve taken advice and we are going to appeal against that too.”
This “will probably cost around £15,000 in fees, but it’s worth us doing”, he added.
Having one less track available to enthusiasts “puts more pressure on the other tracks, and you have to travel more, maybe two or three hours, to practise and race”, he said.
“It just concentrates the problem somewhere else.”
Prior to the 2021 action, “it had been going well here, we were putting in a noise management plan at the track”, he added.
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