A vital project to set up a £50,000 riding centre for the disabled in Tendring will go ahead - even if it means finding a new site for the scheme.
Amanda Pound, chief executive of Tendring Trust for the Disabled, today told the Evening Gazette that she would not let the initiative collapse.
Her vow came after a change of use for land at Foots Farm, in Thorpe Road, Clacton, was agreed by councillors at a planning meeting last night.
They approved the alteration from agricultural to keeping horses.
Tenant Reg Raby, who has farmed the land with his father for 43 years, fears it means he will be evicted from the site.
If that happened, it was unlikely the riding centre for the disabled would be built there.
Miss Pound admitted that if that was the case it might delay the project but would certainly not mean the end.
"We have looked at other land and we would find somewhere else in Tendring. There is absolutely no doubt about that in my mind," she said.
Published Wednesday August 4, 2004
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