THE owner of a vehicle sport and testing centre near York faces a £5,734 court bill for repeatedly breaking noise limits on its activities.
Residents living near Tockwith Multi-Drive Activity Centre’s base at Tockwith Airfield complained to Harrogate District Council about a “constant loud drone, popping engines and tyre squeal” during events there that at times was so loud they had to leave their homes to escape from it, Harrogate magistrates heard.
The council served a noise abatement notice on the business that came into effect in August 2011, but on ten occasions since, noise levels at the site have exceeded the legal limit.
Magistrates fined the owner of Tockwith Multi-Drive Activity Centre, Simon Craig Moor, £2,000, and ordered him to pay £3,719 prosecution costs plus a victim surcharge of £15, after he admitted ten breaches of the noise abatement notice.
The centre contains a go-karting race circuit, auto test facilities, a skid pan and facilities for quad bikes, large goods vehicles and rally cars among others.
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