Gary Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Looks interesting! http://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/articles/18423/1/Objectors-line-up-against-former-airfield-plan/Page1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Anyone with a collection of 100+ cars worth enough money to be building a 2 storey underground storage facility for them is hardly going to be drag racing them up and down an old abandoned airfield! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Just what I thought Inky... ooh to have that much money eh ? The ponds and woods sound nice..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Not sure whether it's 125 acres as the beginning of the article says, or 12.5 acres (10 acres of grassland and two and-a-half acres of woodland) as it says later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 OK so I had to look... planning application number 2014/23332 and lots of documents which I couldn't be bothered to read... but I read one small letter.To me it doesn't sound at all like a place just for a 'private collection' at all and it says the applicant/owner will be out of the country most of the time and says he needs the large office to run the 'business' !?Large business officeVarious staff..for researching and sourcing new cars & liaising with specialist dealers.. car collection manager.. valuation staff... selling and buying...importing/exporting... payroll...sourcing car parts... taking vehicles off site for mots, servicing etc... oh and 2 security guards full time on site.Sounds more like a specialist car sales business to me and a very big site. I wouldn't mind a nosey round all those flashy cars if/when it's built though Can't really see why it would be refused as they've allowed a new 'normal' car sales place to be built right at the side of the busy Chester Road (Walton Drag) recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inky pete Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 I wouldn't mind a nosey round all those flashy cars if/when it's built though I wouldn't mind a job there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Good point... I wonder if the owner would let you and me wash them then take them off site for rapid 'spin' dry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 But is there not a Shell or BP test track at Stretton already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Shell stopped using it about 10 years ago Coffee. There were plans a a few years back by someone else who wanted to turn it all into some sort of motor sports/driving facility but I'm not sure if that was refused or withdrawn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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