General Discussion
Some direct feedback on this potential issue, from a contributor to the national newspaper article, linked above: "Having lived for almost 2 years 'across the road' from a pig farm, housing around 3000 pigs, I can tell you the smell can be unbearable when the vents on the sheds are opened. Living in the country, you get used to farmyard smells, but NOTHING equals the smell of thousands of ...
Apparently they would not slaughter on site - suggestion is that the fattened pigs would be transported to an abattoir in South Wales - i.e. yet more traffic movements to be taken into consideration by anyone living close by and more stress for the animals. And the best bacon sarnies come from the best reared pork.
Andy - what is being considered is a 32000 unit, 4 sets a year. It would not be like the pig farms we currently have in the area, so you may expect a different experience in the smells department. All I can say is don't squeal if it does go ahead and proves to be a less than beneficial contribution to our lovely environment, when you may have had the chance to challenge it!
Construction of the site is unlikely to employ any local people as they use pre-fab concrete slabs for their units. In production, again no figures have been produced but comparing with other operations (this is a highly automated operation that they usually run) we would guess maybe a dozen or so. These will probably be low-paid and again judging by other sites run by JMW, non-local, often ...
For those of you at the Warren, it is only 2.6 miles away, as shown by the Google maps straight line distance tool - beware of North-Westerly winds!
More inland than that. If you consider the A379 as one side of a triangle, the back road from Starcross to Mamhead as another and the road from Kenton, which joins the Starcross road as the third, the area under consideration is where these second two sides of the triangle join. Of course anyone who lives in Dawlish, but more inland than the sea front, is likely to be less than 3 miles from this ...
Are you aware of the current investigation into siting a pig factory farm on the outskirts of Kenton/Starcross? Are you also aware that if this went ahead, it would put 32,000 pigs a year only 3 miles from Dawlish sea front and the likelihood of smell pollution impact this could generate? Not good, I would suggest, for inhabitants and potential visitors alike. Info: ...
