HORSE owners could see a specialist facility built in St Ouen as a home for animals that are retired or recovering from injury or illness, if a planning application is approved.
Seacliff Livery, the application explains, is designed as a specialist livery providing “high-standard, full-care livery with a strong emphasis on welfare, individualised attention and communication with owners”. Located in 15.5 vergées of fields in St Ouen, it would have space for four horses, both indoors and outdoors.
Currently, applicant Emily Bell explains, there is no comparable facility in Jersey and horses instead have to be taken to the UK for retirement.
The journey is “long and stressful”, she argued.
The application has previously been refused. A key reason cited was that it “has failed to demonstrate that the proposed livery would make a genuine contribution to the rural economy resulting in an unjustified structure in the countryside which is considered to harm the landscape character of the area”.
It has so far attracted one comment from former Senator Terry Le Main, who said the land was “a prime agricultural field”.
But Ms Bell argued that the building was “deliberately modest in scale” and that she would rotate the fields between horse grazing and growing potatoes and other crops.
