Soldato
All makes perfect sense. What world are we living in where anyone thinks it a good idea that the public purse underwrite this project?!
£280m "Circuit of Wales" given go ahead.
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Would be disappointing if this never gets completed with it being so close to me... 
Soldato
so close, they haven't even put a spade in the ground.Would be disappointing if this never gets completed with it being so close to me...
its just a way for the investors to scam public money
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Soldato
completely this. It's for this reason I honestly hope it never happens.
The place will turn in to another Pyongyang/Valencia circuit within 5 years of opening.
This genuinely made me cry with laughter.
Soldato
You do realise Silverstone is already built right?
Obviously. Its also had heavy reinvestment and the wing built in recent times and it still only 50 million...
There is so many issues with this site:
Transport links: heads of the valleys is basically a car park during rush hour, down to one lane by gilwern/Abergavenny. The other side by hirwauen is a single carriage road. So the only way is to come up through Cardiff and up the valley. Big traffic jams around castle coach.
Weather: I work around that area, it's either ******* it down all the time or the cloud is very low. So helicopter /drone camera work is going to be poor.
Gas pipeline: there is a major nationalgrid transmission pipeline in on the course, this pipeline was installed in the 70s and is not a twin wall so the project would have to pay for the pipe to be dug up and sleeved, not cheap.
Accommodation: there is nothing nearby only Merthyr at that's not exactly pretty.
Iron Age/ Bronze Age settlement. There are multiple settlements in the area, not sure how they plan to deal with that.
Instead they could invest in pembrey, it has a airfield lots of accommodation. Pre existing contracts. Only thing it needs doing is traffic links. Roads are single lane from either Llanelli or Carmarthen.
But to be honest this is just a we need a race circuit near Cardiff as Cardiff needs everything
Transport links: heads of the valleys is basically a car park during rush hour, down to one lane by gilwern/Abergavenny. The other side by hirwauen is a single carriage road. So the only way is to come up through Cardiff and up the valley. Big traffic jams around castle coach.
Weather: I work around that area, it's either ******* it down all the time or the cloud is very low. So helicopter /drone camera work is going to be poor.
Gas pipeline: there is a major nationalgrid transmission pipeline in on the course, this pipeline was installed in the 70s and is not a twin wall so the project would have to pay for the pipe to be dug up and sleeved, not cheap.
Accommodation: there is nothing nearby only Merthyr at that's not exactly pretty.
Iron Age/ Bronze Age settlement. There are multiple settlements in the area, not sure how they plan to deal with that.
Instead they could invest in pembrey, it has a airfield lots of accommodation. Pre existing contracts. Only thing it needs doing is traffic links. Roads are single lane from either Llanelli or Carmarthen.
But to be honest this is just a we need a race circuit near Cardiff as Cardiff needs everything
Soldato
Another major issue with the proposed site, is that it is a total bog land! Be surprised if they build a shed on it!
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Does anyone on here genuinely believe this will ever happen?
Soldato
No, but larger more stupid projects have gone ahead in the past. So we're all hoping that this one won't join them.
Soldato
Wales' biggest ever scam has had an update and it still looks like the Welsh Government want to push ahead with it. But a report said there were "significant shortcomings" of how public money was spent. 
The bit that jumped out to me:
I wonder how long this is going to get dragged out. Absolute joke.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39706499
The bit that jumped out to me:- Almost half the money went to nine companies or individuals with a close relationship to HoVDC and its shareholders
I wonder how long this is going to get dragged out. Absolute joke.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-39706499
Soldato
It does make you wonder what purpose actually has 'investing' in landscaping the garden of it's only director.
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/...TD/companies-house-data#mortgages-and-charges
Absolutely astonishing that public money is going in to this scam.
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/...TD/companies-house-data#mortgages-and-charges
Absolutely astonishing that public money is going in to this scam.
Soldato
Maybe the landscaping is to add spectator banks in his back garden so that it can be used as a temporary track until the new one is built?
Soldato
This entire fiasco smacks of cronyism, corruption and complete Welsh assembly incompetence. How many more £millions of public money is going to be trousered before someone see's it for what it is and pulls the plug 
Caporegime
This entire fiasco smacks of cronyism, corruption and complete Welsh assembly incompetence. How many more £millions of public money is going to be trousered before someone see's it for what it is and pulls the plug
Completely agree. It's what happens when you give buffoons power and money.
Soldato
Just another entry in the catalogue of financial screw-ups the welsh assembly is responsible for, all while the Welsh NHS and education system fall to pieces. I remember voting in the referendum on the Welsh Assembly and thinking it was a total waste of time even then they should close it down and spend the money it wastes on fixing the problems it's caused.