WEYMOUTH Wildcats have for the first time revealed grand ambitions of creating a multi-use sports village as they bid to reunite speedway with the town.

Co-promoters James Tresadern and Martin Peters are in discussions over the feasibility of finding a new track location for their current nomadic club.

Clubs without a home track are currently forbidden from competing in leagues run by the British Speedway Promoters’ Association after a controversial ruling in 2020.

Wildcats insist their early-stage plans have attracted interest from investors and could also be funded by grants as they look in to creating a sporting hub for the area.

Speaking to Echosport, Tresadern said: “There are quite a few people that are willing to help – I won’t name names.

“They want speedway back in Weymouth. Also, we would be able to apply for grants.

“What we would do is not just make it a speedway track. We would make it a multi-use stadium, so you could have a football pitch in the middle.

“Other people would be able to utilise the stadium. You want to make it multi-use.

“You’d start off small as small could be. Look at disabled archery, for instance. You’d be able to find a grant to help get the bits and pieces to help with that.

“It makes more sense to make it a multi-use stadium, rather than four riders on a bike whizzing round once a week.

“Open it up, make it seven days a week. You could have football, hockey – whatever. It wouldn’t have to be a grass infield, it could be a 3G.

“You’d be looking at grants, talking to people who’d be interested in helping fund that.

“Splitting the cost makes it easier to bear.”

He added: “That’s what the vision is. We don’t just want to create a speedway track.

“We want to make sure that it’s a multi-use centre, because then planning permissions are not going to be so difficult.

“It makes full use for the people of Weymouth and the surrounding area if it’s opened up.

“It’s pretty well since 2015 when we were in discussions about how we could get another stadium.

“It needs to be a multi-sports village, if anything. Football, hockey, archery, basketball courts, whatever you can do to help the area is what it’s all about.”

However, Tresadern admitted the search for suitable land continues to be inhibited by price and location.

He said: “I keep looking but there doesn’t seem a lot there. You’ll see something and it’s gone within a couple of days.

“We all know motorsport is noisy. Quite a bit of the Jurassic coastline is protected.

“So, finding a field in the middle of nowhere that does need an access road of some form, to put a stadium, is a big ask.

“We just need a farmer to say they’ve got a field, come and use it.

“In this day and age, it is a lot of money that’s being asked for. That can put you off a little bit, whereas a couple of years ago I don’t think it would’ve been half as expensive.”