Sadly with the modern injury claim culture councils have to protect themselves. I have a friend who works for a london borough which was recently featured on tv in a program called the 'claim game' where a woman claimed compensation for a tree branch that hit her while sitting in the park. Sadly these claims cost councils millions a year and mean that many councils now have a whole department of civil servants employed to fight them and come up with inspection and safety regimes to protect themselves and protect YOUR money. Many of these bans have been put in place to prevent incidents of personal injury occuring, any rc car could cause injury and as there is no licensing to ensure that users are skilled enough to prevent this happening the simple answer is to ban.
Its not a noise issue is the simple version of what i am saying. Can you fight it? Well the best advice would be to arrange a meeting with the parks manager of your local council and ask if you could have an area dedicated for rc car usuage, bare in mind that there would be a cost involved in this and that someone will have to pay. If they say no the best way to look at it is that it is there land and they can make descisions as they see fit.
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