Haunting abandoned RACE TRACK left to rot after plans to transform into football ground fell through

A RACE way has been near to rot aft plans to alteration into a shot crushed fell through.

The stadium successful Brandon, Warwickshire served arsenic the location of the Coventry Bees motorcycle speedway team for astir 90 years earlier its closure.

Brandon Stadium, besides known arsenic Coventry Stadium, was closed successful 2016 aft the Coventry Bees stopped racing there.

Their departure resulted aft the squad failed to scope a woody to proceed racing astatine the site.

A video by YouTube transmission Explore With Shano showed the present derelict and overgrown site.

In the video helium walks done the crumbling stadium which suffered from an arson onslaught successful 2022.

Clear pain marks are inactive disposable crossed the operation which is littered with deformed and partially melted metal.

The video besides showed destroyed interiors of buildings connected the site.

Many are filled with shattered solid and person their furnishings damaged and near lying connected the floor.

The stadium archetypal hosted speedway events successful 1928, earlier besides taking connected banal car racing successful the 1950s.

It had been a fashionable halt for galore high-profile speedway events successful its lifetime.

Under the aged format of the Speedway World Championship, it held events including the British Speedway Championship and the Commonwealth and Overseas finals.

It besides hosted the 1998, 1999 and 2000 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain.

The 'Brandonapolis' was an yearly lawsuit astatine the tract which featured immoderate of the world's champion speedway riders.

It was postponed successful 2011, owed to a quality with British Speedway (BSPA).

Then, aft the Coventry Bees ended their racing astatine the tract successful 2016, it fell into ruin.

Explore With Shano's video shows the present overgrown way and abandoned stands.

Graffiti present dominates the walls and structures of the stadium, with galore displaying an homage to the erstwhile glory of the grounds and its racing heritage.

There had been plans to person the stadium into homes and a 3G football transportation with a pavilion by its owners.

Brandon Estates (BE) enactment guardant the program but it was unanimously refused by Rugby Borough Council successful November 2022.

The institution past appealed against the determination astatine the readying inquiry.

Then successful January this year, the plans and entreaty were thrown retired by a readying inspector.

By March, the deadline to entreaty that consequent determination passed and campaigners confirmed nary legal situation had been enactment guardant by BE.

Planning Inspector Helen Hockenhull threw retired the owners' entreaty arsenic she was not persuaded the tract was surplus to requirements oregon that the worth of a 3G transportation outweighed that of a assemblage stadium.