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Environmental group launches legal challenge over chicken farm approval
Chickens rest in their pens after judging has finished in the poultry, waterfowl and produce class at Malvern Autumn Show, at the Three Counties Showground near Malvern in Worcestershire, September 26, 2021
ENVIRONMENTAL group River Action announced today that it is taking legal action against Shropshire Council over its decision to give planning permission for a large poultry unit.
The unit is due to house 230,000 birds, just 400 metres from another site which houses nearly half a million.
The challenge aims to halt the spread of industrial-scale chicken farming in the River Severn catchment.
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