Villagers object to abattoir plans
Monday 28th June 2010, 10:49AM BST.
Nearly 100 people have written to council chiefs objecting to controversial plans to double the size of an abattoir in north Shropshire.
The letters to Shropshire Council objecting to proposals submitted by Anglo Beef Processors, at Hordley, near Ellesmere, to bulldoze its abattoir and replace it with a modern, more energy-efficient complex, come as protestors launched a website objecting to the plans.
The website www.no2abp.co.uk will allow residents of the villages surrounding ABP to share concerns about the proposals. They will also be able to receive updates about what stage the scheme is at.
Hordley and Bagley Parish Council have formerly objected to the scheme after sharing the fears of residents that if the plans were given the go ahead it would create more traffic, noise and odour levels. But ABP bosses insist plans were submitted to benefit its staff and animals and would not affect traffic and pollution.
Plans have been submitted to the unitary council and parish councillors have until Thursday to formally lodge their views on the scheme.
A resident who set-up the website, but did not wish to be named, said: “We hope people get on board and visit the website. A lot of people in the villages share the same views about the firm.”
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Again… everyone wants to winge on about traffic and development in thier Village
Yet as soon as they need a job themselves they might see the light
U can’t have it both ways
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I don’t know where T.D.M. lives but I bet it’s nowhere near this smelly site. I know the area well, I have a niece living just up the LANE from it. Believe me it is a problem. Country lanes are not made for artics to use and even though they have been allocated a designated route they still stray off it onto lanes that go through villages and are hardly wide enough for 2 large vans let alone 50ft long trucks. When I was visiting in May you could smell the place even then, and in high summer it is disgusting. I advise T.D.M. to go for a drive round there one day to see for himself the problems the locals have and I advise him to make sure his insurance cover is up to date. These people are not complaining for the sake of it, to double the size of this operation is a disaster in the making, the place has outgrown it’s location now. So T.D.M. until you know what you’re talking about please keep quiet.
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so these people don’t want jobs that help the local community but they’d oon moan if the company upsticks and goes to where they are wanted
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I dont know what you are all moaning about. when tc price worked from the site years ago the stench was unbearable as all dead carcases where transported to the site to make bonemeal and on a good windy day you could smell it as far as tetchill but no one complained then. its only the people who have not lived around here for long that seem to do all the complaining. just remember the factory was here first . so you all should have known what the area was like. does any one remember the whales that where brought to the site in the 60s.
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