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Speedway to stay on the ridge
Plans for a new stadium complex for the Swindon Robins speedway
Mansfield Begbie team, including a greyhound racing track, covered market and Youth
Initiative Centre, together with a care home, 450 residential units and
Associates Ltd a business park have been submitted to Swindon Council.
Tadpole Lane ➜
Providing mortgage services for the community since 1987 Blunsdon by-pass
New housing
LOOKING Stadium

FOR A MORTGAGE Offices

SAVING ➜ New

housing
Motorola
Existing housing
Salzgitter Drive

Following major objections from securing the future of speedway,
speedway fans and residents last providing youth training facilities,
year, when developers proposed employment opportunities and a
Review your mortgage now to build a smaller facility suitable proportion of affordable housing
for dog racing only, Thistle Land, within the residential area.”
and you might go on holiday RREEF UK Property Ventures and Tomlinson said, “I’m delighted the
Abbey Meads councillor Justin
Gaming International have pro-
better off posed a new stadium to the east of developers have responded to the
protests last year to secure the fu-
the existing site suitable for speed-
way and dogs, with office units, ture of the Robins. I am also pleased
and to build residential dwellings by the move from light industrial
We may be able to find you off Salzgitter Drive, close to houses use of the land to a more accept-
a lower interest rate. You may have to pay on St Andrew’s Ridge. able residential and business de-
The application covers a 22 hec- velopment.”
an early repayment charge to your tare (54 acre) site. Access to hous- Subject to planning approval, the
existing lender if you remortgage. ing will be from Salzgitter Drive, stadium could be ready for the
but stadium traffic will continue 2009 speedway season.
Whether you’re planning to move to a to be from Tadpole Lane, off the The public display of the plans
new house or to remortgage your property, new Blunsdon by-pass. on 12 June was publicised at where
The stadium complex will in- artists impressions can be seen.
with over 19 years experience clude a youth centre offering train- At the display Barry Cheyne,
providing mortgages in Swindon, ing in motor engineering and main- who lives in one of the closest
tenance, and animal husbandry houses to the stadium on St An-
Mansfield Begbie Associates aim to provide and care. drews’ Ridge, said he liked the
an excellent and personal service. The proposals as a whole are proposals but is concerned with
expected to create and safeguard the volume of traffic on Salzgitter
There may be a fee payable at completion nearly 1,000 jobs. Drive and access to the office units
for placing your mortgage. The precise amount North Swindon MP Michael off Thamesdown Drive on stadium
Wills welcomed the proposals for race days.
will depend on your circumstances
but we estimate it will be £300.

However, no completion no fee.

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