A COUNCIL has dismissed elderly residents’ claims that they are being unfairly evicted from stables they lease for their beloved horses as the authority needs land to avert illegal travellers camps.
Several leaseholders at Darlington Borough Council’s stables at Brankin Road, off Neasham Road, say eviction notices served by the authority could mean a death sentence for some of the eight horses at the site.
One of the horse owners, Lorraine Roach, 71, said she had been bewildered by the council’s claim in the eviction notices that the site was now considered unsuitable to keep horses due to frequent flooding.