Plans to expand a factory farm to hold 4,750 pigs in Rugeley, Staffordshire provoked strong opposition from the local community at a meeting in Hill Ridware Village Hall.

More than 50 local residents came together at a public meeting to oppose a new factory farm in Melmerby, North Yorkshire that would house 360,000 broiler chickens at any one time.

Residents are urging East Lindsey District Council to reject a planning application for a new intensive broiler unit in Poolham, Horncastle that would confine some 400,000 chicks.

Local residents are urging South Norfolk and Broadland District Council to reject a planning application for a major new intensive broiler unit at Docking Farm, between Oulton and Cawston.

Braintree District Council approved the replacement and likely expansion of an intensive poultry farm at its meeting on 2 June, despite receiving over 1,000 objections to the application.

Local residents organising against the expansion plans of an intensive poultry unit (IPU) in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, came together to discuss their opposition strategy.

Around 70 residents of Bampton, a historic Oxfordshire market town that served as the filming location for Downton Abbey, have gathered to oppose a planning application by industrial poultry breeders PD Hook, to build four broiler “breeder” sheds.

Dozens of Weybread residents took part in a peaceful protest outside the Crown Inn pub on Friday 15 May to express opposition to agricultural giant Cranswick’s controversial planning application for an industrial egg incubator in the village.

The government must amend the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) to halt the expansion of factory farming, according to a letter signed by Communities Against Factory Farming, and Dale Vince.