It Looks Like The Top Gear Test Track Is Going To Be Destroyed
As if the campaign denouncing new new Top Gear needed any more to moan about, it looks like the world-famous airfield that served as the Top Gear Test Track is about to be scrubbed off the face of the earth.
With the show in a certain amount of turmoil after Chris Evans’ failed experiment at the helm for the last series, Waverley Borough Council has voted to allow developers to bulldoze Dunsfold Aerodrome to make way for 1800 new houses and flats, plus an expanded business park.
Waverley Borough Council first took the application in December 2015, suggesting that developers saw an opportunity to make some money after Jeremy Clarkson punched a Top Gear producer and was ultimately forced out of the BBC, taking Ricard Hammond and James May with him.
Included in that is a small retail area with a pub or restaurant, perfect for drowning your sorrows over the TV history the car world will have lost.
There are reportedly over 100 businesses already on site. The application involves demolishing over 8000 square metres of existing properties, retaining another 36,700 and building around 51,000 more.
Plans include a primary school, research and development businesses, storage warehouses, a care home and large ponds with some kind of recreational facilities. The three runways would be removed completely.
There’s little more information than that available at present, but it looks like a fairly big nail in the coffin of one of the car world’s prized ‘possessions’.
Earlier this year the company that ran the Top Gear Track Experience collapsed due to free-falling customer numbers.
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Everything has went to sh*t when they sacked Jezza, hasnt it?
Yep
Thats tragic… but how much for the tire wall
Or for that Airplane that is almost evry time in background :-D
The new “Top Gear” has nothing in common with the Top Gear as we all know it, despite the name. The BBC can lay the blame on nobody but themselves for that, and if bulldozing the whole Top Gear facility is the logical consequence, then be it like this.
They are turning it into something useful, so I really don’t see a problem with that. More useful than the new Top Gear at least.
Nobody but themselves? I can think of one clear person to blame.
Look, you can praise him all you want for making top gear what it was, but jeremy Clarkson single-fistedly is responsible for its downfall as well.
You can’t go around the world acting like a man baby to hosting foreign countries and your own production staff without consequence. Everyone spouting nothing but love for jezza sounds like a victim of domestic abuse, attributing only the good to him, and blaming the clear issues on anyone but their beloved.
Why can’t Amazon just buy it and make Grand Tour as the “new Top Gear”?
Would be awesome, just to sh¡t on BBC
It would be way better than GT’s track.
But I think it’s fair to take the ground if it’s for housing and schools. I don’t think the council would like Amazon taking it.
Infact Amazon could use it as an airbase to transport their cargo too. :D
Would be awesome, but BBC would get their army of lawyers over copyright infringements…
Wonder how its come to this……
RICARD RICARD RICARD RICARD RICARD RICARD RICARD RICARD
Yeah, that was a fairly noticable typo. XD
I guess it’s okay, since a lot of new, more useful things will be built in the track’s place. Sure, it’s a tragic loss for the petrolhead world, but it was destined to happen considering how big of a flop new TG was.
Also a loss to the world of british aviation, that was the site of one of the first airfields used by the RAF (although it was made by canadians)
T-Then, where will TG do their filming now?!
Hopefully nowhere. Ever.
Shift To The Eboladrome Guys And Girls. The Test Track Is Not Our Home Afterwards
A great race track sacrificed for some useless buildings? What an utterly stupid decision.
Because teaching small children is useless?
Without those schools we won’t have any new petrolheads, or at least any new petrolheads that know how to read.