A Perthshire planning applicant said she called the police several times after being intimidated by objectors.
The applicant of an equestrian centre this week accused neighbours of launching a "witch hunt" against her.
Plans for an equestrian centre just outside Dunkeld were unanimously approved by Perth and Kinross Council this week.
PKC's planning and development management committee this week considered the application which attracted 34 objections and 63 letters of support.
Objector Douglas Brown told the committee - when it met on February 16 - all the objectors were residents on the estate and none of the supporters lived on the estate.
Karen Inkster of Equine Unlimited applied to Perth and Kinross Council for (in part retrospect) planning permission to the change the use of an agricultural building - a Dutch barn - to form six stables as well as permission for a temporary caravan, two camping pods and the creation of an equestrian centre with an outdoor riding arena on land within the former Dungarthill Estate east of Dunkeld.
Objector Mr Brown said he would be "highly supportive" of such a proposal on the right site but said this was "not the right site".
He added: "It has no water, no existing necessary residential accommodation and questionable and potentially dangerous access. Furthermore it is a site located between three active shooting estates so about the least appropriate place to accommodate flight animals."
The 9.3 hectare site is located around 1.3 miles from the A984 between Caputh and Dunkeld. A number of residential properties are dotted along the track and beyond the site.
Mr Brown said the unadopted road required regular maintenance, was deteriorating again and "simply not appropriate" for horse-boxes and trailers to reverse up and down a "blind, twisty and in some places precipitous farm track".
Ms Karen Inkster bought the land in 2020 and said she had lived there longer and "it used to be absolute paradise - everybody knew each other and everybody looked out for each other".
She said the recent construction of nine new executive homes had "impacted the land considerably" with new people starting to come and go.
Ms Inkster said she had met requests for pony lessons, pulled "fancy cars" out of fields and cleared snow from the road and driveways with her JCB, as well as letting residents - living in a caravan while their house was being built - use her water supply.
She added: "One of the new residents - who has been down and visited my ponies and asked for lessons - chose to email all of the residents (most of them aren't even in residence here yet, they still just own building plots). He asked that they all oppose the planning application. This led to what can only be described as a witch hunt."
She said another resident then shared information in an email to other residents with "only one" checking with Ms Inkster its contents were factual. Ms Inkster said the information was "wrong and misleading but unfortunately misinterpreted as factual".
She added: "This round robin email between residents became very vicious and a campaign was launched to try and prevent my application from proceeding. As a result of this campaign and witch hunt, the intimidation over the past 10 months has resulted in police attendance on a number of occasions. My sheds have been broken into but nothing was stolen. Gates to the horses' fields have been opened during the night in an attempt to let the horses out into the road. Business signs have been removed and I have received verbal abuse telling me I should have a dog collar round my neck. I could not have believed I could have received this level of intimidation over a simple planning application."
Mr Brown said Ms Inkster had a "clandestine connection" to a water borehole. Ms Inkster said the connection was part of the missives when she bought the land and the company who installed it had no concern about contamination. Planning officers told councillors this was a legal rather than planning matter.
Ms Inkster said her equestrian centre would have "very little impact" on the road and the centre would be a "unique facility offering training for horse welfare" not a riding school.
Officers recommended the application be approved.
Lib Dem councillor Willie Wilson moved for approval and called for "kindness and gentleness" going forward.
Seconding Strathtay Conservative councillor Ian James said: "A lot of worries from objections can be put to rest. There are not going to be hundreds of horse-boxes.
"I'm a director of a horse charity and think everything we can do for animal welfare's to be commended."
The application was unanimously approved.
