Cyclo cross event leaves park like a ‘World War One battlefield'

I'm guessing that Stuart Allison is more Baldrick than Lord Flasheart.

Several hundred enthusiasts vs 1 NIMBY dog-walker? Ha ha, no contest! Can't this clown find somewhere else to walk his dog? Or perhaps save up and buy the heath so no-one else can use it.

We have had the same problem with a couple of awkward gits who don't like 'their' little path through a small wooded area (one among any number of options) being taped off for 1 day a year. Wankers.

In other news: Dog walker complains that wet, muddy, field is wet and muddy.
Maybe walk your dog somewhere else if you don't like cleaning your shoes and your dog?

Leave it for a month or so to recover, then drag* Stuart back and ask him to apologise for his whining. Then have him make a large donation to the British Legion by way of apology for his utterly insensitive, spoilt brat like comments.

*Let's face it, he won't be man enough to step up and admit he was wrong on his own.

Oh and then have him pick up all the dog sh*t left around the park. 

I doubt it was any worse than municipal playing fields at the end of the season. With the key difference being that it's a one off leaving time to recover, and not continual damage as the grass tries to grow back.

My local park was due to hold an event in a couple off weeks time. However it was "churned up with mud everywhere" during a Pretty Muddy charity event for Cancer Research and the same dog walker type people complained then. As such, the cross event was not wanted. Amazingly the organisers managed to find a replacement nearby.
The park looks fine now though after a couple of weeks growth and some rain.

No it didn't.

Yeah, it probably naffed up a bit of grass - so what.

At worst, some grass will need reseeding.

I think that's a fairly small price to pay to be able to host a sporting event once a year.

Instead, everyone could just sit inside and increase the 65% adult overweightness.

As well as the close pass series, perhaps road.cc could have "whining locals" series.  I'm sure it would be popular.  We could even have a vote to elect the whiniest whiner of the year, with an appropriate prize of a BSO from Halfords.  I'd chip in a fiver to crowdfund it, as long as it was presented with suitable publicity.

Poor choice of analogy for an article published on Remembrance Sunday...

There were the same complaints by locals after a cyclcross event in an Ipswich park, we're not that far from Bury at Edmunds.

Same old problem people don't want to share these public spaces, but the bigger events held in Ipswich bring European teams over, so bring money to the town with extra visitors. Usually there's plenty of spectators, it something different from the Sunday football.

As the councillor said it doesn't take long for the grass to regrow, and no one knows there's been event.

the picture in the Bury press, shows, as youd expect, very little damage, just an obvious course line, Im sure everyone has been to a CX race thats become an absolute mud bath and resembles a ploughed field, this certainly doesnt look like it was at all, and there is also clearly acres of green space for the walking poop machine to do its business.

sadly local councils do listen to grumpy dog walkers, far too much IMO, as I think we lost one very good local CX course from similar complaints

Typical lycra louts, digging trenches, laying barbed wire and leaving artillary craters everywhere.

Nothing like the Somme where my Grandfather fell, his body was never recovered because of the devestation and mud, no treesjust barbed wire, bodies and mud.

Dont ever say a little inconveinience is like that hell hole where so many died so young!

Simple solution- ban dogs from parks. Find a friggin field for your furry faced faeces fountain’s frolics.

While they’re at it ban extendable leads on all shared use cycleways, bloody lethal tripwires.

should look nice in the springtime when all the poppies start to flower though

Typical spoil sports that want things for their own purposes and not prepared to share or play with others.

It's Grass & Soil FFS, it will self repair. Get over it.

Oh they'd rather have kids on motocross bikes destroy it or have louts using it as a drinking spot with broken glass scattered for their dogs paws.

Some moaning faced gits are only happy when they're rocking the boat.

Totally over the top anology but some arrangement to powerhose paths used that are left caked with mud is definitely reasonable.

The grass will regrow in a few weeks. Not like parks and heath's are competing with Chelsea flower show is it!

Yes, it’s come to a pretty pass when an Englishman can’t easily take out his animal to shit all over this green and pleasant land. 

Like a WW1 battlefield? So shell craters, waist deep mud and dead horses and men scattered around. That must have been some race.

To be honest, I'm getting a little fed up with dog walkers, who assume that the world revolves around them and their mobile turd dispensers.

"For the council this is a money-making exercise, but that shouldn’t overcome the objections to the event."

No, it shouldn't. And doesn't. Judging by the comments from the council, it is reason and perspective that overcomes the objections to the event, you melodramatic whiner.

My grandfather fought in WWI and was deeply affected by the experience. He told my mum that having to retrieve the dead and injured from the battlefield under the cover of darkness was one of the worst experiences of his life. He was lucky and lived to tell the tale, which is why I'm here today keying this in.

I have my grandfather's WWI medals and on remembrance day I always have them with me and think of the horrible experience that he and his comrades endured. I don't bother with a red poppy as his medals have far more personal value.

To be honest I find this person's comments about a patch of earth resembling a WWI battlefield deeply offensive. He should be ashamed, especially given the timing, but probably doesn't have the intelligence to be.

So did the organisers agree to make good and failed to do so, or did the council fail to make them agree to make good?

Stuart Allison has zero concept of what a world war 1 battlefield looks like.