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accommodation, provided there is no evidence that this does not
adversely affect the wellbeing of the animals. One has always
to bear in mind that owners have the right aC appeal to a
Magistrates' Court should the Council refuse to grant or renew
a licence or to impose conditions to a licence to which the
applicants may consider unreasonable.
During the period covered by this report, the Pony Riding
for the Disabled Trust, registered under the National Assistance
Act, 1948 and the Charities Act, 1960, and which is under
distinctive patronage, opened a school at the Grange Farm Sports
Centre for the rehabilitation of physically disabled children
and adults. Unlike the privately owned schools, which have
been established on lands where buildings already existed, the
Trust have had erected buildings specifically designed for the
purposes required and this school is a model of what establishments
of this kind should be. In addition to the stabling,
there is a large covered riding school of conventional design,
changing and resting rooms for the disabled and housing
accommodation for the resident manager and groom. Care has
been taken to make access to the various buildings easy for the
pupils. The Trust is to be congratulated on its worthy objects
and the manner in which it is striving to achieve them.
The usual quarterly inspections of all the establishments,
under your control, were made during the year ended 31st
December, 1965. During the earlier part of this period,
various changes occurred in the management of the Chigwell
Riding School at Chase Lane, but now appears to be more
efficiently conducted under the present licensees. Conditions,
generally, in the various establishments were reasonably
satisfactory at the various times of inspection and no
contraventions of the Act were observed or complaints received
from the general public in connection with them.
The following is a list of licensed premises, together
with the owners and/or managers, and the average number of
animals inspected
Nightingale Riding School, Epplng New Road, Suckhurst Hill:
Owner: Mr, T.P. Robinson of 74 Field Road, Forest Gate, E.7.
14 horses or ponies, plus 6 at part livery and 8 at whole livery.
Forest Riding School. North End, Buckhurst Hill:
Owner: Miss A.O. de Berry, who lives adjoining the stables.
6 horses or ponies. None at livery,
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