Sally Mittuch, 59, moved to Weybread, near Harleston on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, 11 years ago.

She and husband Scott Vincent, an architect, live three doors down from a former poultry slaughterhouse owned by poultry and pork giant Cranswick and their garden backs onto the site.

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Cranswick's Crown Farm site at Weybread (Image: Google Maps)

The Cranswick plot includes the Crown Inn pub which has been closed for many years. It was originally earmarked for demolition under the plans but has since been removed from the application.

Ms Mittuch is leading a bid for the freehouse to be revived as a community pub after Cranswick put it up for sale in October with a guide price of £200k freehold.

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She has submitted an application to Mid Suffolk District Council for it to be classed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV).

If her bid is successful she hopes to create a pub with five en-suite letting rooms by applying for grant aid and raising funds from village shareholders and crowdfunding.

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