Horse Play Proposals
NEWS
for a new ‘Olympic
legacy’ horse riding centre are on course for opening in 2012, SEnine has learned.
The centre will provide stabling for more than 40 horses on the slopes of Shooters Hill.
Money for the £1m plus centre will come from a variety of sources, including £250,000 from the British Equestrian Federation and match-funding from Greenwich Council Olympic Legacy project.
The location is expected to be between Thompson’s Garden Centre and Woodlands Farm on a council-owned site currently grazed by donkeys from Blackheath.
Detailed plans are expected to be ready for consultation in the New Year but
will run into strong opposition from members of the Woodlands Farm Trust, concerned at the over-development of open land.
The new centre is intended to increase access to horse riding across the borough and will also include provision for riding for the disabled.
There will also be a link-up with the re- location to Woolwich of the country’s foremost equestrian Army brigade, the King’s Troop. Officers from the Troop, who will move into the former Royal Artillery barracks, will give their time to training at Shooters Hill as part of their commitment to community engagement.
As well as stabling, there will also be new indoor and outdoor exercise rings. However, plans to allow the horses to gallop on surrounding land are expected to be opposed by
Woodlands Farm and conservationists. Oxleas Woods, are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and horse exercise would churn up paths and leave droppings which could change the area’s delicate ecology.
Chair of the Trust Dr Barry Gray said: “It would be a massive over-development of Metropolitan Open Land and lead to increased traffic in the area. The council seems to take no notice of its own policies for nature conservation and open space.”
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