CAMPAIGNERS will take Shropshire Council to the High Court over the expansion of industrial chicken farms.

The council approved an application in May for a poultry production unit at Felton Butler, which would house 230,000 birds. 

River Action board member Alison Caffyn will challenge the approval of the unit, which lies within the River Severn catchment area, on the grounds that the council has failed to assess the effects of spreading manure and the emissions from burning biomass.