Lord and Lady of the Manor
We would like to urge anyone considering purchasing land, to enquire of the vendors about the use of the land hithertobefore and in particular whether there have been horses on the land.
This decision notice, we think, explains why
Refusal for agricultural barn GPDO reason land has been for equestrian use
Please note however that the refusal does imply that had they been using farm horses or raising horses for meat, then that would be ok. Who would do that in this country?
Calf
plenty ponies bred that the owners know will go straight to the meat man as foals rounded up off the moors and sent to the auction sales, pitiful little lives worth just ten pounds or so.
We have two Dartmoor Hill Ponies that were destined to feed the lions at Longleat safari park, my daughter just kept waving at the auctioneer 
Little things have cost me over a small fortune to keep and geld but are now rising three, total sweeties, and will be ridden next spring and put out on loan as lead rein ponies for small children.
If the horses in the planning case had only been grazing the ground that is classed as agriculture I think, but if they have ridden on the field or lunged/worked in hand then they may have shot themselves in the foot.
I am thinking of selling up in Somerset and moving to ireland, the horse situation there is worse than here, "factory horses" have to be booked in weeks in advance to be slaughtered. Animals are just being abandoned left right and centre.
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