Clive Redman Posted 10 March 2011 Posted 10 March 2011 David on speedway returning to Leicester... "It will be 28 years when we reopen the doors and my involvement with helping to bring speedway back to the city was quite coincidental. I’d recently finished a development project with Leicester City Council for a Leisure Facility. Following my cycling career I really got into sports architecture as I studied architecture whilst I was cycling. I had a client interested in building some sport facilities in Leicester and we discussed the idea of building a sports village. I suggested a speedway stadium and to my surprise he was quite amenable to the idea. "Coincidentally, around the same time, I bumped into the then Chairman of the Leicester Speedway Supporters Club and what seemed like something of a madcap idea very quickly grew to providing Leicester City Council with a feasibility study of leasing this area of land in Beaumont Leys to build a sport village. "Obviously the momentum has built from that to when the planning application went in. The whole thing was extremely well supported by the supporters club, local residents and the council themselves. As time moves on it has been clear that speedway has really captured the public’s imagination." For the full interview visit... http://www.soarmagazine.co.uk/2011/03/10/icon-david-hemsley/
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