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| Thanks to William Morris Gallery |
Sunday 13 April 2014
Additional Units Proposed for Chicken Farm at Upton Snodsbury
Residents of the Wychavon Parishes including Upton Snodsbury, Naunton Beauchamp, Cowsden, North Piddle, Flyford Flavell, Grafton Flyford and Libbery will probably relate to this comment from William Morris. It is a shame that the Planning Inspector who approved the original chicken farm application for two sheds doesn't see our beautiful corner of rural Worcestershire in the same light.
Friday 4 April 2014
Upton Snodbury Chicken Broiler Units on Farming Today!
Sybil Ruscoe contacted WPAG (Wychavon Parishes Action Group) this week to ask if we would like to talk to Farming Today about the planning application by Mr Edward Davies for Chicken Broiler Units.
We learnt that Mr Davies has recently submitted a Full Planning Application for four broiler units which will produce more than one million broiler chickens per year at the site. It is yet to go live on the Wychavon website but we await with interest the application that Mr Davies said at a public meeting that he would not submit!
We told Wychavon Council (and the Planning Inspector) that the application for just two broiler units would not be economic. Guess what? It wasn't and now he has achieved his aim of getting Outline Planning Permission for two sheds and effectively a foot in the door for more. However, it was clear that the planning inspector felt that the impact on the landscape although not significant (in his opinion which was different from the Council's who felt it was) with two units would be if there were more....Time will tell if this argument is won by the local population or Mr Davies.
Some of the WPAG committee and Froghall Farm resident Pat Stanley who is one of the closest "sensitive receptors" as the planning application calls her was also interviewed. As a farmer Pat gave an interesting perspective on the application which will effectively take a perfectly good arable field growing winter wheat out of food production and turn it into chicken sheds on a concrete base in an area that floods regularly.
Farming Today 4th April 2014 -
"Farming Today hears about a planning row over an application to build four poultry broiler units in Worcestershire. Residents near Upton Snodsbury are campaigning against a new development planned by Powys farmer Edward Davies. The poultry units would process over one million birds a year. Sybil Ruscoe meets with the farmer and local protesters."
Click this link to go to the BBC website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zdkjs
We learnt that Mr Davies has recently submitted a Full Planning Application for four broiler units which will produce more than one million broiler chickens per year at the site. It is yet to go live on the Wychavon website but we await with interest the application that Mr Davies said at a public meeting that he would not submit!
We told Wychavon Council (and the Planning Inspector) that the application for just two broiler units would not be economic. Guess what? It wasn't and now he has achieved his aim of getting Outline Planning Permission for two sheds and effectively a foot in the door for more. However, it was clear that the planning inspector felt that the impact on the landscape although not significant (in his opinion which was different from the Council's who felt it was) with two units would be if there were more....Time will tell if this argument is won by the local population or Mr Davies.
Some of the WPAG committee and Froghall Farm resident Pat Stanley who is one of the closest "sensitive receptors" as the planning application calls her was also interviewed. As a farmer Pat gave an interesting perspective on the application which will effectively take a perfectly good arable field growing winter wheat out of food production and turn it into chicken sheds on a concrete base in an area that floods regularly.
Farming Today 4th April 2014 -
"Farming Today hears about a planning row over an application to build four poultry broiler units in Worcestershire. Residents near Upton Snodsbury are campaigning against a new development planned by Powys farmer Edward Davies. The poultry units would process over one million birds a year. Sybil Ruscoe meets with the farmer and local protesters."
Click this link to go to the BBC website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zdkjs
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| Sybil Ruscoe interviewing Alastair Findlay for Farming Today |
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| Sybil Ruscoe interviewing Pat Stanley of Froghall Farm for Farming Today |
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| Sybil Ruscoe interviewing Liz Holpin, Alastair Findlay and Pat Stanley |
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| Sybil Ruscoe from Farming Today at Upton Snodsbury |
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