Egg supplier to Avara can replace 1960s laying sheds

Richard Corbett of Corbett Farms Poultry applied in December to make the change at the Sun Valley Bungalow, Kinnersley site beside the A4112 southeast of Kington.

His application said the two 1960s sheds “are approaching end of life” and would be replaced by a single structure similar to two other more modern units at the site, which it would then be linked to.

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Taking five to six months to construct, the new building would incorporate sustainability measures including roof-mounted solar panels.

The site employs one full-time and two part-time staff, his application added, with eggs from the 26,000 laying hens being supplied to the Avara hatchery at Shobdon on a five-week cycle.

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With no objections from specialist consultees including the council’s ecologist, from the local parish council or the public, planning officer Rebecca Jenman said the proposal “does not intensify or change the existing use of the site”, which is “well contained and screened within the landscape”.

“Impacts on residential amenity, including noise and odour, have been carefully assessed and are considered acceptable, with potential for improvement over the existing situation,” she concluded.

The existing arrangement whereby manure from the sheds is taken away for treatment in an anaerobic digester “will continue”, she added.