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Selby taxpayers' ?500,000 legal bill over stud farm that boasts Ryanair boss among its memberPublished Date: 30 April 2009 - Selby Times - UK
By Staff CopyMORE than ?500,000 of Selby taxpayers' cash has been siphoned during a protracted ten-year wrangle over a district stud farm, it emerged this week.
The money was used to fund planning and legal fees during the bitter row involving the Battlefield Stud thoroughbred racehorse breeding business at Aberford, which last year reached the High Court.
Selby District Council first approved the development ten years ago, permission that was later quashed in court following intervention from Samuel Smith Brewery.
The company has repeatedly attempted to overturn development on greenbelt land, and claimed original permission should never have been given.
But the national Planning Inspectorate has now upheld an appeal ? meaning an SDC enforcement notice, which could have seen the building razed to the ground, has been overturned.
Owner Ian Hutchinson said: "It's appalling this amount of taxpayers' money has been used throughout this dispute.
"We never wanted to find ourselves in this position, and it has been a massive drain, both emotionally and financially, for ourselves."
The farm boasts Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary and members of Dubai's ruling family among its clients.
SDC strategic director Steve Martin said the case had taken up a "huge amount" of the authority's resources and time.
He added: "We hope a careful study of the inspector's conclusions will help clarify the law surrounding development in the greenbelt and settle this matter."
A spokesman for Samuel Smith declined to comment.
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Source: selbytimes.co.uk