Cross Green Farm

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I object on public health, environmental, and animal welfare grounds.

• The awful odours, ammonia and dust pollution which lead to people feeling sick;

• The results of the odour assessment show that one property would experience odours above the Environment Agency benchmark of 3.0ouE/m3 where 10% of the population would be annoyed by odours. (Dr Bull Assessment)

• There are three statutory designated sites and three non-statutory designated sites within 2km of the proposed development. The incremental change in ammonia concentrations and N-deposition is well above the 1% threshold used to determine whether a more detailed assessment is required by NE (typically) and within the IAQM guidance. (Dr Michael Bull Assessment).

• No assessment of indirect upstream and downstream greenhouse gases from this farm (Finch v Surrey County Council [2024] UKSC 20). 

• In R(Squire) v Shropshire Council [2019] EWCA Civ 888, the EIA was defective because it omitted an assessment of the effects of dust from the storage and spreading of manure on third party land. In NFU v Herefordshire Council [2025] EWHC 536 further confirmed that chicken manure is waste, and that the local planning authorities are not obliged to assume regulations like the Farming rules for water will protect the environment, when the evidence shows otherwise. In an email to the council the agent says that the manure will be sent to a power station (29 Jan 25). Combustion ash from Thetford power station is sold as fertiliser, according to the company’s website. The applicant has not provided a sufficient assessment of the impacts of waste spreading on third party land nor evidence that it will not pollute rivers, or negatively impact amenity or European protected habitat sites.

• No assessment calculations of deforestation linked to chicken feed production. 

• Water abstraction could impact protected habitats sites (Harris v EA). The country is already facing drought.

• Bad for public health: Bird flu pandemic risk, antibiotic resistance leads to 2000 hospital deaths, better to promote plant based food (Eat Lancet Diet).