The team behind a successful inner city riding school have been left "heartbroken" after they were forced to pull the plug on an expansion which has left them owing thousands to backers.
Park Palace Ponies, set up on Mill Street in Dingle in 2017, offers riding lessons to inner city children. The scheme operates out of the former Park Palace theatre and its success led to plans to create a full-sized facility in the south of the city.
Following a successful crowd-funder which raised £76,500, the team went on to lease a site at Walker’s Woods off Mersey Road in Aigburth where it set about constructing the new riding school. However the project was conditional on securing additional grazing space for the horses in order to be granted a licence by Liverpool City Council.
