{"id":64252,"date":"2025-08-13T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:16:11","slug":"horse-racing-family-given-permission-by-west-suffolk-council-to-build-improved-facilities-in-wickhambrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64252\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse racing family given permission by West Suffolk Council to build improved facilities in Wickhambrook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A horse racing family has been given planning permission to build improved facilities.<\/p>\n<p>West Suffolk Council planners approved Mrs Hearn\u2019s bid to put up a new building to support her family\u2019s horse racing business based in Baxters Green, Wickhambrook.<\/p>\n<p>The building will include storage, a workshop, an office, welfare facilities, a garage and a cart lodge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 928 802\" alt=\"Application site in Baxters Green, Wickhambrook. Picture: Google Maps\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"9HMWDV08F59NBERJJ8UE.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.16\"\/>Application site in Baxters Green, Wickhambrook. Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Planning documents said Mrs Hearn\u2019s family owns show jumping horses, with three or four staying at the site\u2019s stables throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cThe family own race horses that are \u2018in and around\u2019 Newmarket and contribute to the racing industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey purchase horses at different points [in] a horse\u2019s career, whether racing or show jumping horses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family owns Flying Spurs Partnership, which consists of buying, racing and selling horses \u2014 the new building will allow for the horses to stay at the site in cases of rest and pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the workshop will be used to keep and fix day-to-day machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Wickhambrook Parish Council supported the plans and no concerns were raised.<\/p>\n<p>Planners concluded the proposals would meet policies protecting and ensuring the operational needs of the horse racing industry and approved the application subject to conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horse racing family has been given planning permission to build improved facilities. West Suffolk Council planners approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[34080,33202,11179,4475,229,3004,101,11180,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-64252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-bury-st-edmunds","tag-haverhill","tag-newmarket","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-suffolk-homepage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}