huge apologies... yet ANOTHER question - all weather turnout?!?

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hi again

can anyone enlighten me to the difference between a manege and 'all weather turnout' area... i've viewed a few houses with maneges, and some with 'all weather turnout areas' and they look the same... am i mad?!

then... i got a-thinking... is it something to do with planning?

any help much appreciated as we're trying to buy our dream house at the moment and it hasn't got the equestrian facilities we need... one of the things i'd like is an all weather turnout patch.... and i'm worried about getting planning permission as it's listed. we're seeing planning person this week, but i don't want to ask him what is the best sneaky way as he'll think i'm taking the p*ss...
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i thought it might be... because some of them are quite obviously used as maneges...

if i genuinely just wanted a little patch of land to turn them out when ground was VERY muddy... could it be a case of just laying sand/rubber etc on top of the ground, or would it need to be prepared/drained like a manege? anyone?
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We built an all weather turn out pad. having looked at a few ( well, the ones we looked at were top class - at a major stud) and spoke to a few trainers/horse people who had tried making turn out pads by covering the ground with woodchippings or sand and rubber, we decided that it wasnt worth doing things by halves and so dug up the ring first, put in draining base etc and a sand topping. We also use ours to lunge, long rein and loose school (as its only I think 15mx12m) so If i was to do it again, Id do sand and rubber as it would be longer lasting for riding. hwever if you were looking for a place to turnout only - ie no exercising on it, then Id go for woodchips as its easier to work with for poo picking.
 
Ours is 20 x25m and we scraped back soil and put down some drainage and then sand on top. Tbh it was very cheap to do and although doesn't have the most amazing drainage does the job. In an ideal world would have liked rubber as the sand has gone very compacted now and is quite hard for riding on..
 
Hi Clipcloppop,
I always follow your posts with interest, we have a similar amount of land as you are looking to get and similar dilemmas! I was thinking of getting some rubber or something for a lunging area/turnout in really bad weather but am not sure how to go about the drainage, my OH keeps digging little trenches round the field but that doesn't work!!
 
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