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Thorney wrote:Awaiting a site visit as part of the appeal. It needs a senior appeal officer (whatever that is) and there are only so many in the country. Been a truly frustrating experience, no wonder most people give up.

Stick with it! one day it will so be worth it when you meet loads of shooters from here who respond to your invite to attend the opening fund raising guest shoot.

Fingers crossed for this project - really hope to comes to fruition.
J

hitchphil wrote:

Thorney wrote:Awaiting a site visit as part of the appeal. It needs a senior appeal officer (whatever that is) and there are only so many in the country. Been a truly frustrating experience, no wonder most people give up.

Stick with it! one day it will so be worth it when you meet loads of shooters from here who respond to your invite to attend the opening fund raising guest shoot.

Well I'm £30k down in fees thus far, triple that in time and effort, the process is just so weighted against the applicant that theres no wonder that there hasnt been a new shooting range created in the UK for many years.

Keep your chin up, you'll get there.

Thorney wrote:Well I'm £30k down in fees thus far, triple that in time and effort, the process is just so weighted against the applicant that theres no wonder that there hasnt been a new shooting range created in the UK for many years.

Any further updates

Funny you mention this, Black Rifle facebook page just threw a link to Silverstone Shooting Range facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/Silverstone-Sh ... 590919204/







Looks like a lot of work has gone in to flattening the land.

you sure that isn't just the m1 link further down the a5? :P