Potential Loss of Another Riding School and Rescue..

Signed. Pretty rubbish situation.

I saw the news report the other evening on local news.

I hope the riding school are approaching local land owners for potential alternatives also.
Sounds hard but the council owner the land and can do with it as they please. The riding school have been given 5 months notice to find alternative summer grazing which is more than any normal horse owner would receive.

If this is summer grazing I'd assume they also have 'winter' grazing - in the short term maybe this could be managed differently to allow it to be used for a longer period.

Sounds really harsh from me but I feel it's a little dramatic to suggest the business will close if they lose 7 acres of grazing that they only had a license to graze for a couple of months of the year. I think effort would be better spent finding an alternative to allow them to rest the grazing they do still have available to them. 5 months notice gives them until June to find an alternative - maybe they could graze they're hay suppliers hay fields after its cut for a few weeks to rest their own grazing - just a suggestion.

It probably is a friend of a council person that has an alpaca breeding business so it's doubtful any petition is going to change the councils decision.

Just my humble opinion.
 
dorsetladette said:
Signed. Pretty rubbish situation.

I saw the news report the other evening on local news.

I hope the riding school are approaching local land owners for potential alternatives also.
Sounds hard but the council owner the land and can do with it as they please. The riding school have been given 5 months notice to find alternative summer grazing which is more than any normal horse owner would receive.

If this is summer grazing I'd assume they also have 'winter' grazing - in the short term maybe this could be managed differently to allow it to be used for a longer period.

Sounds really harsh from me but I feel it's a little dramatic to suggest the business will close if they lose 7 acres of grazing that they only had a license to graze for a couple of months of the year. I think effort would be better spent finding an alternative to allow them to rest the grazing they do still have available to them. 5 months notice gives them until June to find an alternative - maybe they could graze they're hay suppliers hay fields after its cut for a few weeks to rest their own grazing - just a suggestion.

It probably is a friend of a council person that has an alpaca breeding business so it's doubtful any petition is going to change the councils decision.

Just my humble opinion.
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I don't disagree. My gripe is mostly that the council don't seem to have followed appropriate process/have 1 rule for 1 and a different rule for another.

If they follow appropriate process and still would like the equestrian business to vacate, then it's very sad but unfortunately always a risk when you only rent land.



Anyway, thanks all :)
 
wonder if it would be possible for them to get grazing further away and box small groups of horses from the riding school side out to this grazing for say a month at a time to rest/refresh.

That is the system that many inner city riding schools use for their horses, including I believe the cavalry horses, when the actual stables have no grazing at all. Not ideal but could enable them to keep going.
 
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