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The following pages set out some guidance, suggestions and inspiration about managing land for horses.
Whatever drives you to manage your land, be it; horse health and welfare, enhancing biodiversity, or tackling problems like poaching – there should be something here to help.
Plenty of good guidance already exists and so these pages provide links to this, whilst highlighting the importance of managing grasslands and how management relates to landscape.
Anyone who owns, rents or manages land for horses, ponies and donkeys.
This guidance is designed to help everyone, from single pony owners to large equestrian businesses.
This Guidance supports and highlights the important role equestrian owners and businesses play in the South Downs National Park.
Often this role, contributes to many aspects of the rural economy such as; recreation, job provision and tourism.
As a land-based business or individual, this guidance helps set out how everyone, through their stewardship of the land, can contribute positively to the landscape and wider aims and ambitions of the National Park.
These pages do not try to provide all of the answers, rather they seek to raise awareness and understanding of the important relationship between landscape and horses.
This Guidance, together with the Equestrian TAN, supports planning applicants to meet the Equestrian Policy of the South Downs Local Plan.
It will help to set out the kind of actions expected on land which is the subject of a planning application and provides assistance for those producing a Conservation-based Land Management Plan – either as part of a planning application or not.
For those interested in taking part in ReNature or who just want to know how their land can do more for them, their horses and wildlife.
The ReNature programme is inclusive and any positive action, however small or big is welcomed.
The landscapes of the South Downs National Park provide people with the opportunity to keep horses and horses provide people with the opportunity to sensitively manage the land.
