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Summerland site could be temporary home for tram horses

Plans for facility approved

The vacant Summerland site could be used as a temporary home for the horses which pull the trams on Douglas Promenade.

Plans for a facility, incorporating stables and tram sheds for 18 horses and 11 staff, have been given the go-ahead.

It will be based on the site while current stables, used since 1877, are repaired.

No date has been set for the building works.

Summerland was demolished in 2005.

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