In 2005, at the height of the controversy over the site's accuracy, Mr Wales told the BBC that students who copied information from Wikipedia "deserved to get an F grade".

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Last year, the National Grid began warning Wood Recycling Services Ltd about the height of wood piles at the Appspond Lane site and from July 2012, the Environment Agency (EA) said it must remove thousands of tonnes of wood which the agency believed were a safety hazard.

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Colonial Mutual Life, one of Australia's oldest insurance companies, bought the site on which the eyesores stand at the height of a property boom in the late 1980s and pulled down a strip of crude, modern buildings.

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The structure, which has a span of 6.4m (21ft) and a height of 1.3m (4ft 3in), is being built on the site of a disused horse bridge.

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The Mirror published a photograph of the construction site and further reported that Ambani has secured permission to build up to a height of 66 meters but wants to raise the tower to 150 meters, a move which the local residents are believed to be opposing.

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The first track at the site was built in 1987 at the height of the sport's popularity, before falling into disrepair.

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Half of the caravan was left jammed in the height barrier at the site's entrance, near Ashton Keynes, and the other half inside the car park.

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Officials said compared to previous planning consents for the site, dating back to 2008, the massing and overall height of the new proposals has been reduced, with the current plans providing more open public spaces and the larger commercial buildings being broken up into more intimate, individual units that improve the overall look and feel of the area.

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