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Time runs out for company trying to create one of UK's biggest factory farms

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Cranswick has run out of time to seek to overturn West Norfolk Council's move to block its plans to create a factory farm which spans land in both Methwold and neighbouring Feltwell.

The meat giant had hoped to construct a huge farming complex, capable of housing 14,000 pigs and 714,000 chickens, which would have been one of the biggest farming sites in the UK.

What the Feltwell and Methwold farms could have looked like (Image: Cranswick)

But WNC's planning committee rejected the scheme in April this year, due to the environmental harm it would cause.........

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