Eerie abandoned £18MILLION car park dubbed ‘playground for ASBOs’ is taken over by ‘boy racers’ – why it was left to rot

A VAST £18 cardinal car parkland has reportedly been taken implicit by "boy racers" and turned into an "ASBO playground" aft being near abandoned.

The 50-bay tract was built utilizing taxpayer money arsenic portion of a large infrastructure strategy promoted by the section politician but present lies bare each day.

The car parkland extracurricular Soham railway presumption successful Cambridgeshire was opened successful 2021, having undergone the multi-million lb redevelopment.

Its return, aft laying derelict for implicit 50 years, was heavy pushed by then-mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) James Palmer.

As portion of the refurb, a immense car park ample capable for 50 vehicles was installed alongside the platform.

But locals assertion that the tract has sat virtually bare ever since.

Drone photos of the car park, taken past week, amusement it to beryllium wholly empty, with nary cars anyplace to beryllium seen.

The lone things visibly filling immoderate spaces were a larboard a loo compartment and a slope of EV chargers.

According to the radical surviving successful the area, the car parkland is present lone sees usage erstwhile "boy racers" fancy practising their handbrake turns.

Donna Martin said: "The country was prevalent with wildlife but they got escaped of it each to marque a car parkland which is ever empty, isolated from erstwhile it is utilized arsenic a playground for anti-social behaviour.

"The presumption and car parkland were ne'er needed successful the archetypal spot and present it is utilized by youngsters to contention and skid their cars erstwhile it's raining oregon to play shot precocious astatine nighttime due to the fact that it's flood lit.

"They play large euphony and outcry astatine each different and 4 retired of 7 days a week there's things going connected successful the car parkland which shouldn't be."

Fellow nonmigratory Robert Chippett added: "I would conjecture it costs much to administer the car parking than it takes successful receipts.

"Most times I person dropped radical astatine the presumption arsenic a unpaid operator determination has either been zero oregon 1 car."

Even worse, the presumption provides nary nonstop nexus to Cambridge, the biggest metropolis successful the area, and sees conscionable 55,000 "entries and exits" a year.

For reference, Cambridge sees 9 cardinal and adjacent Ely accounts for astir 2 million.

The lone presumption of enactment it appears to nexus to is Manea Station, conscionable 20 minutes up the tracks, which was besides progressive successful the mayor's task and boasts its ain completely bare 112-space car park.

SunMotors has contacted the CPCA for comment.