Say NO to the proposed Broiler Chicken Farm in Partaloa!

Partaloa town hall has sent to Dip.Almeria a proposal to build a “chicken farm” just over 1km north of Piedra Amarilla village. The proposal appears to be for throusands of broiler chickens, fattened up over 6-8 weeks on constant rotation, crammed into a building of some 2,000 square metres.

The Mayor has said there is recommended at least 500m between a chicken farm and the nearest homes, but that is debatable and nothing has been found in the EU directive.

The recently acquired parcela involved (plot 132) is within 500 metres of many residential houses, and even a group of 8 homes in direct line of sight less than 300 metres away.

The “chicken farm” is not a continuance or expansion of a traditional chicken farmer’s family business, is not a traditional agricultural activity for this area, but would be an industrial-scale factory operation where no such thing has existed before, producing large quantities of broiler chickens each year.

It would be very close to houses, producing appalling smells that would spread over the whole municipality.

Once permission is given for one farm, that’s a precedent, we could end up with 10 or 20 chicken farms!