OBJECTORS who are opposed to competitive polo being played on Barfold Farm Estate are saddling up for a new fight.

A grand scheme to turn 40 acres of the 200-acre site – near The Lythe Hill Hotel – into a new international private polo ground was thrown out by Waverley planners, in August.

More than 200 objections were triggered by five applications submitted by multi-millionaire landowner Adrian Kirby through the sponsorship organisation Cortium Sports he founded.

Mr Kirby wanted consent to play up to 20 competitive matches a year, providing stabling for 60 horses and converting a wartime signals station into a clubhouse.

Planning consent has already been granted on appeal for practice polo matches to be played, and the field will be ready for use next year.

For full story, see this week's Haslemere Herald.