We are a group of local residents and beyond who have been fighting this planning application from Bedfordia Ltd since July 2017. The company originally applied for 10 brolier sheds but withdrew their application at the 11th hour. They have now ‘revised’ their application by trimming down the plan by 4 sheds (so as a direct comparison to the original application it is ‘less damaging’) but as we an
d thousands of experts, scientists and Sir David Attenborough know it is a catastrophic abuse of nature, the countryside and the PLANET and it has to end. It’s dangerous, unfair and dirty, with impacts ranging from climate change and biodiversity loss to disease and food insecurity. Factory farming is too often viewed as the cheap, efficient solution to feeding our world. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. For every 100 food calories of edible crops fed to livestock, we get back just 17 calories in the form of meat and dairy; an 83% loss. In short, people are being forced to compete with farm animals for food. PLEASE support this campaign and beyond by objecting to this proposal and any other similar proposals around the country. And educate family, friends and neighbours that there is an alternative future
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Proposed Planning Application:
Construction and operation of a broiler rearing unit with 6 linked poultry buildings and ancillary structures comprising 15 grain silos, 3 crumb feed silos, 3 feed blending houses, 2 water tanks with an associated pump house, 2 gas storage tanks, an electricity substation, switch room and standby generator with fuel tank, a weigh room, a welfare block, a cold store and incinerator, a boiler house and storage building, a security gatehouse and associated hard standing with boundary fencing, landscape, planting and flood attenuation works and an upgrading of an existing vehicular access track extending to the south-west to an existing anaerobic digestion plant access road. ] Land North East Of Westwood AD Plant Bedford Road Rushden Northamptonshire
(Planning ref: 18/01284/FUL)
- Housing 314,000 chickens every 49 days
- 132 HGV lorries (the largest lorries permitted on UK roads) every 49 days
turning in and out onto the very busy A6 from a standing start
- Ammonia build up and pollution straight into all local waterways
- All Northamptonshire waterways recorded as poor ecological health
currently
- In grade 2 agricultural farmlands
- Situated behind an entire road and avenue of local houses
- Flood risks. The proposed area flooded badly last year; Bedford Road,
Avenue Road and Newton Road all closed on numerous dates due to
flooding
- Pandemic threats – Covid 19 was a zoonotic disease
- Unsustainable
- Does not provide ‘good job opportunities’
- Against local planning policy
