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The access to the stables is NOT from the bottom end ie., from Whyteladyes Lane but from the top -
ie., Church Road plus the tiniest bit of Kennel Lane.
So this kind of neutralises your misleading quote on the stable access ...viz.,
... There are cars etc going in and out of the stables all the time....
which could lead one to believe that these 'cars' access from the bottom of the lane!
Check out "Kennel Lane" on an Ordnance Survey map - it is barely a thin line from top to bottom - viz., a gated track.
I asked for your definition of "vehicle" - to which you replied as below - so once again I ask ... define "
or other".
It has always been vehicle access; whether that is farm vehicle or other.
I walked my dogs up there for several years some 15 to 20 years ago(still do occasionally) ... and never once did I see "other" vehicles use it
other than the very occasional Copas tractor, labouring up the "lane". And as you so rightly point out, the track is now "
less of a road" ...
which, by definition, (when it was never a road in the first place), would mean that it is just a tardy track now, only worse!
The word "Lane" therefore, is a tad misleading
It may well be that the owners of Hardings Farm have every right (not the sole right) to use the track known as Kennel Lane -
however, I would be astonished if access to the Hardings Farm stables has now been switched by the Richards' to come up from
Whyteladyes Lane! Unless via a 4x4 or a tractor!
I know someone who bid for Hardings Farm long before the Richards bought it ... and therefore have a pretty comprehensive
knowledge of the whys and wherefores of the locality - hence my astonishment at the owners proposal to build 3 large dwellings
on the present stables footprint.
Your reference to words and phrases like "credibility" and "factually correct" are therefore, a wee bit erroneous, wouldn't you say?!

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