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Article: Riding centre extension in doubt
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- January 9, 2001
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A PRESTIGIOUS Solihull-based riding centre is set to be refused
permission to extend its premises after planning chiefs considered
the plans would be 'alien' to the surrounding countryside.
Solihull Riding Club in Four Ashes Road had applied for planning
permission to erect a glass entrance porch in front of its reception
area in a bid to protect the horses from wind and the noise and
disturbance of riders coming and going.
But in a report to Solihull Council's planning sub-committee
officers have recommended the plans be thrown out on the grounds
that the porch would be more like a conservatory and would encroach
on the openness of the site, ...