Representation by Katherine Stewart
- Date submitted
- 16 March 2022
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I object very strongly to the sunnica application. I came to Newmarket in 1985, married a racehorse trainer and spent endless time on the Jockey Club Estates gallops surrounding the town. In the Summer most of it was spent on the Limekilns, this was always a revelation to new UK or International clients, the sense of History and 'how it should be' always touched a chord. It was probably our main selling point to be out at six in the morning watching horses come through the mist in a rural landscape where this had happened over many years. When [redacted] I moved to Freckenham, close enough to Newmarket - I was on the racecourse committee for ten years - but still in the thick of the racing community. it has many studs, north of Newmarket in the stretch from Fordham to Barton Mills, rehoming of racehorse yards and leisure riding. It is also productive farmland. It is an area totally unsuited to be spoilt by Industry, small village communities, that feed into racing employment in the town and to agriculture. It would be a huge loss and sadness for this unique place to be gone from British culture.