Locals in Northumberland hamlet campaigning against plans for chicken sheds at nearby farm

Locals are campaigning against plans for new intensive chicken sheds at a farm in Colwell, Northumberland (Image: Chronicle Live)

Residents in a Northumberland hamlet are campaigning against plans for new intensive chicken shed at a nearby farm. Well House Farm, in Colwell, has applied for planning permission to build four intensive poultry unit sheds.

The sheds will be for 220,000 broiler chickens total per cycle - around 1.7 million chickens every single year. There have been more than 100 objections with concerns being raised about animal welfare, pollution, impacts on property values and bird flu.

Rachel Mellor, 57, a sales sssistant from the nearby village of Cambo, said: "If this proposed factory farm is allowed to go ahead, it will cause irreparable and severe harm to the liv