
POWYS POULTRY FARM 90,000 BROILER EXTENSION APPROVED
During the meeting Agent Ian Pick stated to the committee that the ‘phase 1’ application (August 2018) had been 100% compliant with NRW rules at the time of submission, which were PC’s of ammonia up to 20%. The ammonia report for that development (AS Data & Modelling Ltd – November 2015) stated: ” The modelling predicts that process contributions…would exceed the levels of insignificance for permitting purposes over the area of ancient woodland to the north of the site…and over parts of the River Wye SAC.”
Plans to double size of Powys chicken farm approved – County Times 18th March 2022
Pollution fears over expanded Powys chicken farm plans – The County Times January 2022
Factory farms of disease: how industrial chicken production is breeding the next pandemic – The Guardian Oct 2021
Poultry and pollution: What’s killing the River Wye? – ITV News central Oct 2021
Fish Legal to challenge Powys County Council
Fish Legal has begun a legal challenge after Powys County Council granted planning permission for a doubling in size of Wernhalog industrial chicken in the River Wye catchment.
more on FISH LEGAL WEB
River Wye pollution: Campaigners call on poultry firms to act – BBC News Sept 2021
Britain’s rivers are suffocating to death – The Guardian July 2021
Facts & Figures
POPULATION (approx.)
human : 132,000
Poultry: 10,000,000
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) estimates Powys has 10 million chickens on 200 farms. With 139 applications for poultry units approved in Powys since 2015, it means there are 75 times more chickens than people in the county.
POWYS PLANNING in the NEWS
A bird costs less than a pint: welcome to Britain’s poultry capital – The Guardian June 2021
Welsh council admits it should not have approved vast poultry farm – The Guardian January 2021
Egg farm near Caersws allowed to quadruple production – County Times March 2021
Powys Council hit with Knighton chicken farm court costs – County Times March 2021
Local council opposes 200,000-bird Trefeglwys chicken farm – County Times March 2021
Plans submitted for second chicken shed at Radnorshire farm – County Times March 2021
Plans for 150,000-bird chicken farm near Welshpool rejected – County Times February 2021
Environmental campaign calls for pause in Powys poultry farm approvals – The BBC July 2020
Life in the ‘poultry capital’ of Wales: enough is enough, say overwhelmed residents – The Guardian April 2020
Intensive Poultry Units in planning as of December 2021….
Applications in process 2022

last updated 1st February 2022
Total number of chickens under consideration
