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PLANS for a chicken farm near Knighton which were at the centre of a legal dispute earlier this year have come back before Powys Council. Earlier this year, environmental campaigners Sustainable Food Knighton won a legal battle to stop a 110,000-broiler chicken rearing unit at Llanshay Farm being built. The group believed the permission which had been given to applicant Thomas Price in September 2020 by planners under delegated powers to be unlawful, and applied for a judicial review on the decision. After a High Court Judge granted permission to proceed to a full judicial review hearing, PCC conceded the case and had to pay £20,500 in court costs.
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Sustainable Food Knighton protest against the 110k chicken farm planned at Llanshay. From September. ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are claiming a legal victory, and that planning approval of a 110,000 chicken farm near Knighton will be quashed. But a date for a Judicial Review remains in the court lists, and it is likely that the application will remain in the planning system waiting for a new decision. Sustainable Food Knighton (SFK) said that Powys County Council (PCC) hasd conceded that it had acted unlawfully in granting planning permission last September, for a 110,000 broiler chicken intensive poultry unit (IPU) at Llanshay Farm near the town.
It said the authority had admitted there was no evidence before planning officers to support its conclusion that the impact on neighbours would be acceptable because fields were “unlikely to be spread more than twice per annum”.
“In other words it could not be assumed that the spreading of manure in order to dispose of it would not impact adversely on the local population or on people using the local area for recreation,” SKF said in a statement.
“We are still waiting for the final draft order from the court so that costs can be awarded, but essentially this means that the permission for the IPU development is quashed.