Boost to hopes to save under-threat London equestrian centre

Dr Gray presented a petition with 3,500 signatures opposing the equestrian centre’s disposal to the council and went on to list the centre’s different distinctions. It’s an Olympic legacy project, it’s on Metropolitan Open Land, it’s a Site of Metropolitan Importance (the recognition of a site of ecological or natural significance within London), and an area of nature conservation importance, all of which Dr Gray said should give the site “cast iron protection from development”.