Black Country News: MP in plea over speedway blow; DUDLEY: Backing for fans after stadium plans fall apart.Byline: By Steve Johnson Steve Johnson is the name of:
AN MP today threw her weight behind speedway supporters battling to bring the sport back to the Black Country. Fans of the Cradley Heathens are still reeling from the news that wealthy businessman Tony Mole has withdrawn a planning application to develop a speedway stadium on green belt land off Oldnall Road, Wollescote, between Lye and Pedmore. Mr Mole announced yesterday that he was pulling out of the bid because Dudley Council demands made the project "uneconomical" and no longer a viable proposition. But Stourbridge MP Lynda Waltho Lynda Ellen Waltho (born May 22, 1960, London) is the Labour MP for Stourbridge. She was elected at the 2005 general election, after sitting Labour MP Debra Shipley had stepped down due to ill-health just days before the election was called. said she still wanted to see the sport return to the Dudley borough. "While I am pleased that the planning application will not be proceeding on the Oldnall Road site, I would like to see speedway return to the borough at a more suitable location. "It is part of the council's responsibility to plan for the future of the borough and a stadium would be a tremendous asset to the leisure industry in the area. "It would also give Dudley the chance to make its way back onto the national and interbational sporting stages through speedway. "I shall be seeking an assurance from the council that they will take this aim forward." Cradley Heath Cradley Heath is town in the Black Country, located in the south-west of the Sandwell metropolitan borough, England. The name is usually pronounced "Crayd-ley", not "Crad-ley"; in the Black Country accent it may even sound like "Craig-ley" Heath. Speedway support group spokesman Bob Edwards, who said he was bitterly disappointed with the decision to pull out of the project, claimed that the Unitary Development Plan In United Kingdom Planning Law a Unitary Development Plan (UDP) is an old-style development plan prepared by a Metropolitan district and some Unitary Local Authorities, which contains policies equivalent to those in both a structure plan and local plan. required the council to "encourage and facilitate" the development of a stadium for the borough. "The need for such a facility for speedway and other uses clearly remains and is supported by the 10,000 signatures we have recently collected to support the re-introduction of speedway to the borough," he said. "We will now be seeking a commitment from the council to take the lead in identifying a solution which can deliver their UDP UDP (uridine diphosphate): see uracil. (User Datagram Protocol) A protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used in place of TCP when a reliable delivery is not required. commitment." Cradley Heath Speedway was evicted from its Dudley Wood Stadium home, in Dudley Wood Road, Netherton, at the end of the 1995 season when owners the Bridgewater family and Derek Pugh sold the site to housing giants Barratt. CAPTION(S): DISAPPOINTMENT... businessman Tony Mole and (inset) Stourbridge MP Lynda Waltho. Photosales No.: PT140307BRUM-21 |
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