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150,000-bird chicken farm scheme is lodged

Plans have been unveiled to build giant poultry units in a small village in Shropshire to house nearly 150,000 chickens.


Little Ness poultry firm’s expansion plans rejected

Controversial plans to build five massive poultry units in the Shropshire countryside have been thrown out by a Government inspector after a huge people-power campaign.


Poultry farm plans ‘unsuitable’ for Shropshire countryside

Plans to build five poultry units housing up to a quarter of a million chickens are unsuitable for Shropshire’s “green and pleasant land”, an inquiry heard.

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