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It's important to establish that the velodrome **already **attracts a significant amount of interest from many parties who we have to turn away because the venue is not currently suitable for their events.
Numerous corporate events, large school groups, loads of film/photographic requests, even weddings. We cannot accommodate them with the velodrome in it's current state (see the Good Friday international) It's not even currently up to basic standards having no changing rooms/showers and all other "facilities" being rudimentary at best.
Despite this, during the summer there are still regular track sessions every single day ,school groups every day during term time and holiday club when it's school holidays.
Simply opening the gates on a saturday morning means 100-200 people will flood through during the course of the day, the facility itself (even with the new development) will still have similar limits to the current ones (the track limit and car parking for instance are hardly likely to change)
It's really not a case of "if you build it they will come" "they" are already coming, in droves. We just need the facility to accommodate them better than it can now. It's very important that people understand this.