Two planning applications to massively expand intensive poultry operations in Hibaldstow and Wrawby have triggered strong opposition from local residents in North Lincolnshire. Both proposals would significantly increase the scale of industrial poultry production in the area, adding a combined 3.6 million extra chickens per year, with major implications for air quality, odour, traffic, landscape, and animal welfare.

A planning application to build an intensive dairy unit of 160 cows on green belt land between Hindley and Westhoughton has been submitted to Bolton Council. Locals have been out campaigning against the proposal.

Plans have been submitted to expand Coombe Farm, an intensive poultry unit near Shirenewton, Chepstow, to house an additional 240,000 chickens a year which would bring the total to 1.89 million chickens per year.

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.