Bathurst Regional Council has been working for almost a decade on plans to establish a world-class karting circuit in the region and while there appears to be almost unanimous support for the track, just where to put it is a very different story.

Suggested locations at Kelso and Raglan had previously been rejected for being too close to homes before the idea of installing the track in McPhillamy Park was floated.

And while that location has much going for it, the continuing opposition from the local Wiradyuri community should not be easily ignored. But that seems to be where we are right now.

Council has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on heritage reports that have found no conclusive evidence of indigenous artefacts at the site.

Those reports conclude there is no reason not to build the track there.

Against that, opponents of building the track in its proposed location argue that any artefacts that may have been there for thousands of years would have been obliterated in the past 100 years or so as the Mount was developed as the home of Australian motor sport and by the annual pilgrimage of thousands of race fans to the track.

That's also a compelling case.

Council also points to the support of the Bathurst Aboriginal Lands Council which apparently has no objection to the track being built at the top of the Mount, but members of Bathurst's Wiradyuri community say the Lands Council cannot speak for them.

Again, both sides of the argument make a compelling case but create only further division where, as a community, we need to be creating less.

In the end it comes down not to a question of can council build the track at the top of Mount Panorama, but should it.

And the longer this debate goes on, and the more intense it becomes, the more the answer appears to be no.

It would do our community a great disservice to have a major piece of infrastructure such as the go-kart track go ahead despite such vehement opposition.

In the spirit of reconciliation, it's not too late to find a less contentious site.

We don't want to stubbornly push forward now with a decision we might later regret.