Group get ready to fight farm scheme
VILLAGERS preparing to fight against a planned new chicken farm are to form a special committee.
After packing into Ashchurch Village Hall, for a public meeting into the poultry unit earmarked for Starveall Lane, Pamington, residents decided to get organised.
Pamington farmer Mike Hill, one of those who is worried about the plans, said: "We're going to form a small committee, of about six to eight people, and then we want to get everything together for when they put a planning application in."
He added that the main focus of people's fears at the meeting was over how lorries would access the chicken farm down the narrow lane.
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Herefordshire-based Kinsey Hern wants to set up the facility, which would rear 1.4 million chickens per year.
Four large poultry units would house the birds on fields at the former Starveall Farm site, which his family bought in 2009 in order to set up the operation.
Last month, dozens of villagers attended a parish council meeting, amid fears the development could cause smell and traffic problems.
Mr Hern has insisted people have nothing to fear from the plans.
Comments
by Bonkim2003
Sunday, October 28 2012, 12:01AM
“eyeopener - 'smell and traffic' all such applications have to be supported by environmental impacts report including that from traffic, smells, prevailing wind patterns, distance from houses, locations for disposal of chicken shed sweepings, etc, etc.
is it any different if there was a piggery or sheep or goat sheds - some have heavier and more frequent traffic than chicken sheds.
1.4 million birds is not that great - and traffic movements, etc, would be part of the report, unlikely planning will be approved before the facts are established and local residents/parish consulted at which stage I am sure opportunities for local discussion/comments.
Such developments create fears mainly from recent arrivals from city locations - longer term residents are familiar/learn to live with farm vehicles/”
by eyeopener
Saturday, October 27 2012, 10:53PM
“@Bonkim2003
The "main focus of people's fears at the meeting was over how lorries would access the chicken farm down the narrow lane."
The article makes clear that it is not the farming, but the resulting traffic thats the issue. Not all farms generate volumes of traffic, so moving near a farm is not normally an issue.”
by Bonkim2003
Saturday, October 27 2012, 9:24PM
“So what is wrong with a farm site being used for chicken production? Why move to near a farm in the first place?”