Residents of Thelnetham staged peaceful protests this week in response to a planning recommendation to approve an intensive poultry unit and are heavily disappointed with the result. The development, intended to supply controversial meat giant Cranswick’s industrial chicken operations, has attracted widespread opposition over its potential impacts on health, the environment, animal welfare and village life.

After a local campaign and CAFF legal challenge, East Devon District Council overturned their permission for a 200-calf shed on an intensive dairy farm.

Food company Cranswick has applied for planning permission to build a giant egg incubation factory in Weybread, Suffolk. Plans show that the incubatory will be approximately 9,500 square meters in size. There have been nearly 1,400 objections which quantifies the strength of feeling against these plans.

Planning permission for two poultry houses at Willoughbridge Lodge Farm, on the Staffordshire-Shropshire border, has been overturned after legal pressure from campaign group Communities Against Factory Farming (CAFF).

Well House Farm, in Colwell, has applied for planning permission to build four intensive poultry unit sheds for 220,000 broiler chickens total per cycle - around 1.7 million chickens every single year.

In another blow to controversial meat giant Cranswick, who are already facing numerous allegations of animal cruelty, a second intensive farm application has been refused following mass public outrage, with over 1,000 objections submitted.

An air quality assessment for four intensive poultry units in East Lindsey reveals potentially grave health impacts for local residents if planning permission is granted.

A meat industry giant has demolished factory farm buildings and started the construction of multiple new poultry units. The new development would house over 430,000 birds, more than four times higher than the previous turkey unit, which used to house around 106,000 birds and some of which has now been demolished.

Planning permission for a giant intensive poultry unit in Norfolk which was set to house 310,000 chickens has been overturned after legal pressure from Communities Against Factory Farming (CAFF).