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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sandra Laville

Chicken megafarm in Shropshire must not be built, clean river group tells court

A crowd of chickens at a farm
The planned industrial chicken units will house 230,000 birds at any one time. Photograph: Ian Hinchliffe/Alamy

Clean river campaigners have told a court that planning permission for a poultry megafarm in Shropshire is unlawful and should be overturned.

In the high court in Cardiff on Wednesday, Dr Alison Caffyn argued that the council had failed to take into account all the environmental impacts of the industrial chicken units, which will house 230,000 birds at any one time, in particular the effects of spreading manure on land.

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