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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That’s extremely sad. But on a brighter note, since their building houses, I know where Theo could live next…
Sad
Well now teens with cars are going to have a ghost stigs lap time to beat
I hope they name some of the residential streets after the corners. I’d move to England just to say that I live at number 12, Follow-through avenue.
Gambon street with a little sign that reads: “Dedicated to the man that nearly rolled.”
It’s such a shame to see another ww2 airfield be lost to “Future Development”. Council’s seem far too eager to rip up historical land for the sake of housing and a few shops.
I’m curious to see what will happen with the 747 that lives there. I’m sure most of the aircraft there are air-worthy, but I suspect that Jumbo will be getting scrapped
As much as I hate the new Top Gear, I love that track, they would never destroy a work of art, so why destroy a track that has seen a huge amount of various cars around it and has been seen around the world for years…..
D:
just imagine how the BBC feel right now……..
haha losers
They destroyed the show, so it’s time to destroy the track.
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