Nesscliffe chicken farm plans back on agenda
Wednesday 6th October 2010, 6:30PM BST.
Controversial proposals to build two massive chicken farms housing hundreds of thousands of birds in the Shropshire countryside are back on the agenda despite having been thrown out earlier this year.
Shropshire Council threw out two applications for broiler units in the area of Great and Little Ness, near Nesscliffe.
But one of the farmers has appealed against the decision, while another has submitted a new application.
News that the two developments could still eventually go ahead was revealed at a meeting of Great Ness and Little Ness Parish Council last night.
The fresh application has come from farmer John Warner and his family for land at Rodefern Lane.
If granted it would mean the building of four poultry units, eight feed bins and ancillary buildings.
Parish councillors also heard last night that G C Davies and Co of Red House Farm, Little Ness, had appealed against Shropshire Council’s refusal of planning permission for five broiler units covering three acres and accommodating almost a quarter of a million chickens on a site close to the village of Little Ness.
An inspector will decide the fate of the Red House Farm application after visiting the site and receiving written representation.
When the original applications were submitted parish objectors said they would hit highway safety, as well as the landscape near Nesscliffe.
The Nesses Action Group said it would bring the number of chickens processed in the parish to six million a year.
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