HEREFORDSHIRE Council’s Unitary Development Plan on intensive livestock units states “units should be sited at least 400 metres from non-agricultural dwellings and buildings”.
Planning applications for units within 400 metres of ‘protected’ buildings will be carefully assessed and the closer a unit is to ‘protected’ buildings, the more likely it is to create nuisance.
Units are becoming ever larger, with undeniably more odour, noise and traffic, but the council allows them closer and closer to unconnected protected dwellings, ignoring their own rule.
Can objectors living in such close proximity to this threat all be wrong? And can the few members of the planning committee and the planning officer really be considering the effects these decisions have on nearby residents?
Sites inappropriately located can have nothing but a detrimental effect on residents and can only lead to long-term bad feeling, which will not sit happily in a small community for the future.
PAMELA POWELL Mansel Lacy
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