The owners of the Tect All Terrain Park are concerned the lack of cellphone coverage at the park would not allow high-risk sports to have instant communications if ever there was an accident.
Safety concerns around motor sports and other cross-country competitors emerged at a meeting this week of the Tauranga City and Western Bay District councils, which jointly own the park located between Rotorua and Tauranga.
The meeting heard the Tauranga Motorcycle Club and Te Matai Motorsport had signed leases for their respective areas and continued to develop plans for major facilities.
The motorcycle club had carried out preliminary ground works for an international standard motocross track, while Te Matai Motorsport, incorporating a number of different codes, had plans for autocross and speedway tracks.
A report written by the park's operations manager, Bill Wheeler, said this year's planned $310,000 in capital projects funded by the councils had been disrupted by Vodafone's decision to pull out of the community cell tower scheme.