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Hack Sand Replacement

Meeting: 08/11/2021 - Epsom and Walton Downs Conservators (Item 13)

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This report accompanies a proposal by the Jockey Club to replace the Hack Sand Ride on Six Mile Hill with a sixteen-metre-wide strip at the bottom of the hill with a Hack Canter area. The Jockey Club have concluded that replacement of the existing Hack Sand Ride would be uneconomical and that they would continue their responsibility for maintaining the proposed Hack Canter area, going forward.

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The Conservators received a report which accompanied a proposal by the Jockey Club to replace the Hack Sand Ride on Six Mile Hill with a sixteen-metre-wide strip at the bottom of the hill with a Hack Canter area. The Jockey Club have concluded that replacement of the existing Hack Sand Ride would be uneconomical and that they would continue their responsibility for maintaining the proposed Hack Canter area, going forward.

Following consideration, the Conservators resolved unanimously to:

(1)          Approve in principle, the Jockey Club’s proposal to replace the existing Hack Sand Ride on Six Mile Hill with a Hack Canter area as indicated on the map at Appendix 2 to the report, subject to the following:

a)        That the Jockey Club obtain any (and all) relevant permissions prior to the commencement of any works to replace the existing Hack Sand area, for example, approval of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

b)        That no future maintenance costs of the proposed Hack Canter area fall to the Conservators

c)        That the Health & Safety implications of installing the new Hack Sand Canter area are considered fully by the Jockey Club prior to implementation