{"id":13203,"date":"2025-04-04T05:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13203"},"modified":"2025-04-04T05:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:50:34","slug":"western-springs-speedway-appealing-auckland-council-decision-to-move-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13203","title":{"rendered":"Western Springs Speedway appealing Auckland Council decision to move location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Springs Speedway Association is taking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/556741\/western-springs-speedway-had-the-opportunity-to-put-up-a-proposal\">legal action against Auckland Council<\/a>\u00a0to stop it from moving speedway from its home of almost 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the council\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/547568\/western-springs-wayne-brown-says-fewer-people-go-to-speedway-than-corner-dairy\">voted to move speedway from Western Springs to Onehunga&#8217;s Waikaraka Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The council would spend $11 million on upgrading Waikaraka Park &#8211; the home of stock and saloon car racing &#8211; to host speedway from the 2025-2026 summer season.<\/p>\n<p>Western Springs Speedway Association confirmed to RNZ that it had filed for judicial review at the High Court in Auckland to appeal the decision on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Representing over 1000 members from the sport and community, the Association has filed at the High Court for judicial review.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several councillors have already expressed the view that they would have voted in favour of speedway staying at Western Springs, had they been presented the correct and relevant information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Springs Speedway Association is taking\u00a0legal action against Auckland Council\u00a0to stop it from moving speedway from its home of almost 100 years. Last year, the council\u00a0voted to move speedway from Western Springs to Onehunga&#8217;s Waikaraka Park. The council would spend $11 million on upgrading Waikaraka Park &#8211; the home of stock and saloon car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}