AINTREE COURSE NOT TO BE LOST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18011, 23 November 1926, Page 4

AINTREE COURSE NOT TO BE LOST.

GRAND NATIONAL WILL BE RUN THERE AS USUAL. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, September 30. Considerable alarm was caused in the North and in racing circles yesterday when it became known that the Earl of Sefton. owner of Aintrec Racecourse, where the Grand National is run. had made a request to the Sefton Rural Council to schedule the area for industrial development under the councils towq planning scheme. The “Westminster Gazette.” however. was informed last night by the earl’s agent, Mr Hayward, that the proposal would not affect the racecourse “in any way.” “The area is already considerably an industrial one,” said Mr Hayward, “and it was necessary to have it scheduled as such for the town planning scheme. “I can say definitely on bqhalf of the Earl of Sefton that the scheduling will not interfere with the holding of races such as the Grand Nantional on the course. The racecourse will be kept intact, whatever the surrounding developments. “The confusion has arisen largely owing to the misapprehension by the Sefton Council of the proposal which it considered to-day.” The Sefton Council referred the matter to the Liverpool Regional Town Planning Committee.