Farm plans create objections

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‘Not part of the village experience’ - noise fears over plans for 2,000 pig farm

Fears have been raised and dozens of objections put in against plans for a pig farm in a Norfolk village.

www.edp24.co.uk

 

[deleted user 837354]

Fudge.

 

[Bald Rick]

Welcome to the future.

Already bad but as more urbanites try and move out of cities following covid , can only get worse

 

[ploughman1963]

They all want their cheap food - as long as it isnt prouced within a stones throw of their house. Moan like hell about welfare but when its imported from abroad they conveniently cannot see how it is produced

 

[Suffolk Serf]

2000, 7 to 100kg pig places isn't very large at all.

 

[J 1177]

Oh joy I'm putting in permission for a cattle come machinery shed.....we farm in a village

 

[Tarw Coch]

2000, 7 to 100kg pig places isn't very large at all.

I wouldn’t have a clue as a dairy farmer how big it would need to be and if I haven’t got a clue there’s a fair chance those living in the village haven’t either.....................except that someone on Facebook has probably advised them of all the facts and now they’re an expert and know more about the job than the applicant. ?

 

[HarryB97]

You wouldn't even notice it was there. I used to work on a farm with nearly 6000 liquid fed pigs and 4 sheds of chickens. Unless you were spreading muck or within 50 metres of it you couldn't smell it. As he's in Norfolk he could just have a large out door unit or a load of tents, no size limit then and people couldn't complain.

 

[bitwrx]

2000, 7 to 100kg pig places isn't very large at all.

Not for you and me. But it sounds like a very big number to the layperson...

There really is a vast gulf between what farmers consider normal, and what our ultimate customers consider normal. To the vast majority of people, 2000 pig places sounds like a large scale industrial agribusiness, with all the negative connotations that brings. To me, it sounds like 3 hrs a day forking dung off a step, scraping out with a handler, and chucking straw on the beds; i.e. a part-time job on a small family farm.

To be honest, I think they may have a point, but there's not much I can do about the margin in producing commodity livestock.

 

[betweenthelines]

Every Parish Council should have at least one farmer on it! The quotes from PC in the article clearly shows they have no idea of farming. Would they object to a householder seeking PP for a double garage because someone said "Cars are not my idea of rural life"

A friend of ours is Chair of her local Parish Council. When people started complaining about "large farm vehicles" using the rural lanes they got a curt "It's the countryside, get used to it" response. And she's a born & bred townie!

 

[teslacoils]

Local bluster. Planners will rightly put their comments in the bin and pass it. They are bound by the rules. Journalists will print anything. Next will be pics of sad locals in t-shirts holding a banner.

 

[spin cycle]

i'd abolish parish councils...nowt but trouble IMO

 

[delilah]

tbf, I do think that farmers can be their own worst enemy in situations like this. It is to be expected in this day and age that there will be objections, best thing to do is invite the PC to the farm before the application is even submitted, just to show them what is planned and talk about it. If they come it can only help, if they don't come then you already have the high ground.

 

[Bald Rick]

tbf, I do think that farmers can be their own worst enemy in situations like this. It is to be expected in this day and age that there will be objections, best thing to do is invite the PC to the farm before the application is even submitted, just to show them what is planned and talk about it. If they come it can only help, if they don't come then you already have the high ground.

Planning application forms have a section on public engagement and consultation.
Usually put N/A through that .... guess that’s why I get fingered by the cut and paste brigade

 

[delilah]

Planning application forms have a section on public engagement and consultation.
Usually put N/A through that .... guess that’s why I get fingered by the cut and paste brigade

probably.
Doesn't cost anything to invite the chair of the planning sub-committee round. They are the same the world over, full of self importance, feed it.

 

[teslacoils]

No. You categorically don't give them prior warning of an application! May as well put your nut sack in an alsations mouth.

 

[steveR]

probably.
Doesn't cost anything to invite the chair of the planning sub-committee round. They are the same the world over, full of self importance, feed it.

I think we have met the same individual a few times....

 

[kfpben]

That’ll get through no bother. Thick skin, tin hat on, bat away the BS. Once it’s built folk will hardly notice.
When our shed was built people came up to us and apologised saying that if they’d known it was going to look like that they wouldn’t have objected.

More to the point what kind of farmer knocks down sheds!?

 

[FarmerBruce]

Oh joy I'm putting in permission for a cattle come machinery shed.....we farm in a village

Don’t tell them about the livestock

 

[delilah]

No. You categorically don't give them prior warning of an application! May as well put your nut sack in an alsations mouth.

Worked for us, insofar as it turned what was most likely going to be 'object' in to 'no comment'. Sadly, 'no comment' is probably the best that farming can hope for these days.