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Sustainable Food Knighton protest against the 110k chicken farm planned at Llanshay. From September. ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are claiming a  legal victory, and that planning approval of a 110,000 chicken farm near Knighton will be quashed. But a date for a Judicial Review remains in the court lists, and it is likely that the application will remain in the planning system waiting for a new decision. Sustainable Food Knighton (SFK) said that Powys County Council (PCC) hasd conceded that...

It said the authority had admitted there was no evidence before planning officers to support its conclusion that the impact on neighbours would be acceptable because fields were “unlikely to be spread more than twice per annum”. “In other words it could not be assumed that the spreading of manure in order to dispose of it would not impact adversely on the local population or on people using the local area for recreation,” SKF said in a statement. “We are still waiting for the final dr...