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   I have just been to a meeting on the future of Eastway during the
Olympics development. The news is that they have found a replacement
site and want to see it active by July next year. The site is at Rommey
Marsh in Enfield, a smaller site but it is owned by Lee Valley Park
which makes the time scale feasable, and they can squeeze a 1.6 km
track onto it and possibly a couple of hills. It is right next to the
M25 which will no doubt please out of towners. The meeting was
carefully managed and they seemed to be very keen to satisfy
everybodies demands, since this is a condition of their planning
permission for the olympic site. Some people were concerned about only
getting half a season at Eastway and the danger of there being a gap in
provision. Since the developers claim not to know when Eastway will
close, the rush to open Enfield is either based on a worse case
scenario or they are not telling everything they know. Sounds like we
may only get one race there in 2006.

The plan for the Velopark on the current site is still in place but not until after 2012.

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Stuart D Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Visitor (new) Joined: 05 October 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2	Topic: Latest Eastway News Posted: 05 October 2005 at 10:20pm
	I have just been to a meeting on the future of Eastway during the Olympics development. The news is that they have found a replacement site and want to see it active by July next year. The site is at Rommey Marsh in Enfield, a smaller site but it is owned by Lee Valley Park which makes the time scale feasable, and they can squeeze a 1.6 km track onto it and possibly a couple of hills. It is right next to the M25 which will no doubt please out of towners. The meeting was carefully managed and they seemed to be very keen to satisfy everybodies demands, since this is a condition of their planning permission for the olympic site. Some people were concerned about only getting half a season at Eastway and the danger of there being a gap in provision. Since the developers claim not to know when Eastway will close, the rush to open Enfield is either based on a worse case scenario or they are not telling everything they know. Sounds like we may only get one race there in 2006. The plan for the Velopark on the current site is still in place but not until after 2012.

Adrian Setter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 04 March 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1606	Posted: 19 October 2005 at 1:46pm
	Those road-namers have been at it again. If I've remembered the map on the wall at Eastway correctly, this new site is the one occupied by "Depot" on this map. Not content with roads named after Laughton and Chatterton [sic] near the Lincoln, track, just look at what they've been and called the access road itself!
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richforrest Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 07 March 2005 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 307	Posted: 25 October 2005 at 1:54pm
	That depot site , is a huge Sainsburys distribution warehouse.The other side of the river is empty. When the w/house was built it took a while for the bomb squad to clear the area of WW2 bombs. Rich.

Adrian Setter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 04 March 2005 Status: Offline Points: 1606	Posted: 25 October 2005 at 2:19pm
	Ah, looks like my recollection wasn't quite right. Indeed, now you point it out, the site just west and across the river from the one I identified looks more like it. I suspect I was confused by multimap's aerial photo showing the site as ready to be developed.
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richforrest Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BHPC Member Joined: 07 March 2005 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 307	Posted: 25 October 2005 at 2:28pm
	That photo must be 5? years old if not more, It will be good to watch the new site being built, as I have to drive past there every night on my way to Essex and Suffolk. Rich.